# Installing Ruby from Source, README needs the command 'make

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**Created:** [September 22, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-ruby-from-source-readme-needs-the-command-make/69654 "2006-09-22T18:33:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Micah\_Cochran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Micah\_Cochran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Micah_Cochran)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-ruby-from-source-readme-needs-the-command-make/69654/1 "2006-09-22T18:33:50Z")

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Recently, I compiled ruby for the second time in my life last week.  
I picked up the latest source release, the ruby-1.8.5.tar.bz2, and the  
compile on my Linux box running HostGIS, a Slackware Based Distro, went  
great. I am developing a RoR application and need to refer to  
documentation.  
I had a hard time figuring out how to install the ruby documentation for  
‘ri’. I presume that ‘ri’ itself was already installed with the ‘make  
install’ command. I expected the ruby documentation that the command  
would  
have been included in the distribution, if it was actually included. I  
looked high and low to different Ruby websites for the Official ruby  
documentation for ‘ri’. It seems like none of the article I read about  
‘ri’  
contained the answer of how to install the documentation for ‘ri’. I,  
finally, found out that installing the documentation was simply a ‘make’  
command:  
make install-doc

```
My only request is to include this command in the README file that

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is included with the source distribution in a section immediately after  
the  
installation portion of this document. I make this request is so that  
everyone who is using ruby in a development environment–myself  
included–won’t forget this helpful step.

Please let me know what I need to do or who I need to contact in order  
to  
get this into the README file.

Thank you for your help,

Micah Cochran  
GIS Coordinator  
Engineering Services & Community Development Department  
City of Athens, Alabama, USA