# Buiulding multiple versions of Ruby **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 24, 2009, 11:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/buiulding-multiple-versions-of-ruby/163721 "2009-03-24T11:29:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![john\_maclean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@john\_maclean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/john_maclean)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 11:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/buiulding-multiple-versions-of-ruby/163721/1 "2009-03-24T11:29:32Z")
This is the way that I build ruby from the latest svn sources. This allows me to have multiple versions and to compare the performance/behaviour of my builds against the stable version provided by my distro. cd ~/path/to/source ./configure --prefix=/home/jayeola/installs --program-suffix=191 make -j2 && make -j2 install How do you guys do it? – John M. 07739 171 531 MSc (DIC) Timezone: GMT ---
**Author:** ![john\_maclean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@john\_maclean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/john_maclean)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/buiulding-multiple-versions-of-ruby/163721/2 "2009-03-24T17:10:49Z")
john maclean wrote: > cd ~/path/to/source > ./configure --prefix=/home/jayeola/installs --program-suffix=191 > make -j2 && make -j2 install > > How do you guys do it? This is correct, except ruby 1.8.6 and 1.8.7 clash, so if you want both of those give them a different --prefix