ruby - installing from source

1. Download ruby.tar.gz from rubyforge

2. unzip and untar the file

3. Navigate to extracted folder

4. following steps ( like any other source compile on linux)

./configure
make
make install


This will install ruby .

5. To install an extention (say to install openssl on linux)

go to ruby-source/ext/open ssl and execute following steps

ruby extconf.rb
make
make install