# Ruby on AIX?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-aix/97446>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 7, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-aix/97446 "2006-07-07T02:59:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Karthik\_Krishnan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Karthik\_Krishnan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Karthik_Krishnan)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-aix/97446/1 "2006-07-07T02:59:33Z")

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I have managed to compile Ruby on AIX 5.3 and have run my application  
successfully on it. I have to go thru some series of simple steps to  
achieve the same. I have tried to document the same for the benefit  
of others.

Please go to  
[http://karthikvkrishnan.blogspot.com/2006/03/compiling-ruby-on-ibm-aix.html](http://karthikvkrishnan.blogspot.com/2006/03/compiling-ruby-on-ibm-aix.html)

Cheers,  
Karthik.

> I’ve successfully compiled and installed Ruby 1.8.3 on AIX, I have not  
> tried 1.8.4 yet… I had to do a lot of fiddling with it to get it to  
> compile, but that was on AIX 5.1… I have heard that it compiles  
> just fine on AIX 5.3.

> -Will

> On 2/9/06, Obie F. \<obiefernandez at [gmail.com](http://gmail.com) [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)\> wrote:
> 
> - We’re looking at big IBM hardware running AIX as a potential  
> _\>_ deployment platform for the big credit card processing Rails and  
> Ruby  
> _\>_ stuff that my team is currently building. I was wondering if anyone  
> _\>_ else is running on AIX or knows if Ruby is well-supported on this  
> _\>_ platform.  
> _\>_  
> _\>_ I googled the subject, but  
> _\>_  
> [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse\_thread/thread/3daaf60b012c1921](http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/3daaf60b012c1921)  
> _\>_ is the only thing I found – it’s not 100% confidence inspiring.  
> _\>_  
> _\>_ It seems like more people out there are running Ruby on Solaris, but  
> _\>_ the client is indicating that they’d rather host our stuff on the  
> IBM  
> _\>_ servers rather than Fujitsu.  
> _\>_  
> _\>_ Any advice is appreciated.  
> _\>_  
> _\>_ Thanks,  
> _\>_ Obie  
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**Author:** ![Karthik\_Krishnan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Karthik\_Krishnan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Karthik_Krishnan)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-aix/97446/2 "2008-02-15T15:55:05Z")

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I have been running Ruby 1.8.6 on AIX 5.3 ML5 with IBM openssh  
4.3.0.5301 and openssl 0.9.7l-1 for several months now and all work  
great. I have hit a wall though with IBM’s security fix for openssh  
4.5.0.5302 that requires 0.9.8.4 open ssl. I have been struggling with  
the ssl libraries. Ruby can not resolve the link in the compile. Any  
ideas as to what I may have missed would be appreciated.

Thanks,  
James  
Karthik Krishnan wrote:

> I have managed to compile Ruby on AIX 5.3 and have run my application  
> successfully on it. I have to go thru some series of simple steps to  
> achieve the same. I have tried to document the same for the benefit  
> of others.
> 
> Please go to  
> [http://karthikvkrishnan.blogspot.com/2006/03/compiling-ruby-on-ibm-aix.html](http://karthikvkrishnan.blogspot.com/2006/03/compiling-ruby-on-ibm-aix.html)
> 
> Cheers,  
> Karthik.
> 
> > I’ve successfully compiled and installed Ruby 1.8.3 on AIX, I have not  
> > tried 1.8.4 yet… I had to do a lot of fiddling with it to get it to  
> > compile, but that was on AIX 5.1… I have heard that it compiles  
> > just fine on AIX 5.3.
> 
> > -Will
> 
> > On 2/9/06, Obie F. \<obiefernandez at [gmail.com](http://gmail.com) [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)\> wrote:
> > 
> > - We’re looking at big IBM hardware running AIX as a potential  
> > _\>_ deployment platform for the big credit card processing Rails and  
> > Ruby  
> > _\>_ stuff that my team is currently building. I was wondering if anyone  
> > _\>_ else is running on AIX or knows if Ruby is well-supported on this  
> > _\>_ platform.  
> > _\>_  
> > _\>_ I googled the subject, but  
> > _\>_  
> > [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse\_thread/thread/3daaf60b012c1921](http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/3daaf60b012c1921)  
> > _\>_ is the only thing I found – it’s not 100% confidence inspiring.  
> > _\>_  
> > _\>_ It seems like more people out there are running Ruby on Solaris, but  
> > _\>_ the client is indicating that they’d rather host our stuff on the  
> > IBM  
> > _\>_ servers rather than Fujitsu.  
> > _\>_  
> > _\>_ Any advice is appreciated.  
> > _\>_  
> > _\>_ Thanks,  
> > _\>_ Obie  
> > _\>_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_  
> > _\>_ Rails mailing list  
> > _\>_ Rails at [lists.rubyonrails.org](http://lists.rubyonrails.org)  
> > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)  
> > _\>_ [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)  
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