# Install RoR with Ruby from source

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-ror-with-ruby-from-source/115579>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 26, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-ror-with-ruby-from-source/115579 "2007-09-26T15:02:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![helzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e19b73/32.png) [@helzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/helzer)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-ror-with-ruby-from-source/115579/1 "2007-09-26T15:02:31Z")

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I’m running Rails on Linux (ubuntu 7.0.4).  
It turns out that when installing Ruby via apt-get, you get a generic  
build that hardly uses the instruction set. It recognizes your system  
as ‘i486-linux’.

When you build Ruby from source, it builds as ‘i686-linux’.

The speed improvement, for the same code is about x2 (so it’s kinda  
worth the effort).

It works MOSTLY OK, but I’ve still got some critical things that will  
not install:

- openssl
- readline (so, script/console doesn’t run)

Anyone did the same thing (e.g. install Ruby from source and then  
Rails) and got everything to work?

Thanks,  
Helzer

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**Author:** ![helzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e19b73/32.png) [@helzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/helzer)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-ror-with-ruby-from-source/115579/2 "2007-09-26T15:25:23Z")

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Helzer,

Install the following packages and recompile Ruby:

libreadline5-dev libssl-dev

On 9/26/07, helzer [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

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**Author:** ![helzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e19b73/32.png) [@helzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/helzer)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-ror-with-ruby-from-source/115579/3 "2007-09-26T16:03:25Z")

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Thanks Cody,

That fixed it.

Amir