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Ruby-1.8.0

Introduction to Ruby

The Ruby package contains the Ruby development environment. This is useful for object-oriented scripting.

Package information

Installation of Ruby

Install Ruby by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

Contents

The Ruby package contains ruby and irb.

Description

ruby

ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming.

irb

irb is the interactive interface for ruby.

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