Ruby without installation

casper_the_ghost · October 18, 2007, 8:00am

Hi!
I today make som scripts in Perl, it have the advantage it is
installed everyware
and i not allowed to install stuff, eg Ruby but i have full acces to
my userarea.

I time ago i so LispInABox witch was LISP and EMACS and everyting
arounf
needed, just unzip the catalog and use it…

I like to find equal stuff for Ruby, does anyone know if this exits

Best regards
Anders

casper_the_ghost · October 18, 2007, 9:08am

On Oct 17, 2007, at 23:00 , anders wrote:

I like to find equal stuff for Ruby, does anyone know if this exits
download a ruby tarball, extract it, then cd into the directory it
created then:

./configure --prefix=~/ruby
make
make install
~/ruby/bin/ruby -v

casper_the_ghost · October 18, 2007, 3:24pm

On 10/18/07, Eric H. [email protected] wrote:

./configure --prefix=~/ruby
make
make install
~/ruby/bin/ruby -v

I sometimes follow this method even for machines that I do have
administrative control of. If the machines have Java installed, JRuby
may be another option:
> java -jar ~/jruby-complete.jar -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2007-09-25 rev 3876) [i386-jruby1.1]