How to install ERb?

Ruby
#1

hi everyone. im reading and following the ruby for rails book and im on
ERb now. but when i run erb, i get command not found error. so i guess
its not installed by default with ruby?

how do i install it? and where do i get it? many thanks.

#2

On 12/16/06, Malamute J. [email protected] wrote:

hi everyone. im reading and following the ruby for rails book and im on
ERb now. but when i run erb, i get command not found error. so i guess
its not installed by default with ruby?

how do i install it? and where do i get it? many thanks.

It’s typically installed with the standard Ruby distribution. If
you’re using a Linux system with split up Ruby packages, you may find
it in the list of additional packages to be installed.

Chad

#3

Chad F. wrote:

It’s typically installed with the standard Ruby distribution. If
you’re using a Linux system with split up Ruby packages, you may find
it in the list of additional packages to be installed.

Chad

Actually i checked the synaptic (im using edgy eft) and didnt find the
‘erb’. i checked again and this time i searched for ‘ruby’. now i see
eRuby. its installed now but i have to manually make erb symlink to
/usr/bin/erb1.8.

thanks chad. btw, i also have the rails recipes book and i hope i could
read it soon once im comfortable with rails/ruby. thanks again.

#4

Malamute J. wrote:

/usr/bin/erb1.8.

thanks chad. btw, i also have the rails recipes book and i hope i could
read it soon once im comfortable with rails/ruby. thanks again.

Argh Debian deconstructivism. Isn’t there a ticket to make a “full
distribution” metapackage for Ruby already? This always gets me on a new
Ubuntu install, for some reason irb and erb, and some of the standard
extensions aren’t even recommended packages.

David V.

#5

Quoting [email protected]:

It is tiresome. I always recommend installing Ruby from source, on
any machine where you can.

I’m starting to lean that way even on Gentoo, where it is installed
from
source. :slight_smile: I guess we’re waiting for Curt, Austin and MicroSoft to get
the
Visual C stuff straightened out to make this a reality on Windows. Any
recent
updates on that front?

#6

Hi –

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, David V. wrote:

eRuby. its installed now but i have to manually make erb symlink to
/usr/bin/erb1.8.

thanks chad. btw, i also have the rails recipes book and i hope i could
read it soon once im comfortable with rails/ruby. thanks again.

Argh Debian deconstructivism. Isn’t there a ticket to make a “full
distribution” metapackage for Ruby already? This always gets me on a new
Ubuntu install, for some reason irb and erb, and some of the standard
extensions aren’t even recommended packages.

It is tiresome. I always recommend installing Ruby from source, on
any machine where you can.

David

#7

On 12/17/06, David V. [email protected] wrote:

Argh Debian deconstructivism. Isn’t there a ticket to make a “full
distribution” metapackage for Ruby already? This always gets me on a new
Ubuntu install, for some reason irb and erb, and some of the standard
extensions aren’t even recommended packages.

If this is still accurate, you could try this:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/181150

But I think it’s better to install ruby from source too.