…
i looked into rvm, but it required a newer version of BASH and git
(whatever that is)
it seemed easier just to build on my own. but i may have to revisit
rvm.
…
I strongly urge you to install rvm.
It is an incredibly useful tool.
Well worth the trouble to set up if you plan
to write anything beyond “Hello World!” or
similarly simple programs in ruby.
it appears in order to install rvm i have to have “git” working.
sadly, it appears to build “git” is more difficult than building ruby
(unless anybody has a better idea)
IDK, I was able to download a binary of git (I’m on OSX), so super easy.
And I never had much trouble building Ruby either. Had to look up some
flags
and do a bit of experimenting, but I didn’t run into any curve balls
(maybe
my intuitions about which flags I needed for my use case were
sufficient) I
really didn’t feel like there were any curve balls.
at this rate, i may have to stick with ruby-1.8.6
Ouch! Definitely try to get git installed, 1.8.6 is a deficit (though I
guess it depends why you’re needing Ruby).
Yeah, that’s weird, such an important resource should be made available.
There’s a git irc channel on freenode where people might be able to
offer
you more informed help than I can.
I’ve not looked into it, but there’s another tool for managing your Ruby
versions which might not depend on git, called rbenv ( https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv) glancing at the readme, it looks
like
you can build yourself, or use ruby-build to install Rubies ( https://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build).
The instructions there have you using “git clone”, but you can get
around
that by downloading the tarball of it from the github page and then pick
up
after that step. It might still use git after that point, I’ve done less
than 1 minute worth of research, so I don’t know. But it might be worth
looking into.