Wanted to take a peek and possibly contribute to the Rubinius project as it seems be the most exciting project for me after fancying Parrot and Perl6 for a while.

Documenting steps to make a freshly installed Ubuntu 7.1 to compile Rubinius.  More instructions are available this Rubinius development site.

Here are the steps I followed.

#install ruby and rake
sudo apt-get install ruby
sudo apt-get install rake
# Install git
sudo apt-get install git-core
#configure git
git config  --global user.name "Your Name"
git config  --global user.email "your@email"


#Download source code anonymously


git clone git://git.rubini.us/code


# Now the code is setup in the code/ directory


# Setup the development environment


#first comment out the a line from this file if you don't have the cd-rom using which Ubuntu is installed


sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list


# Comment out deb cdrom line


#install gcc development environment


sudo apt-get install build-essential


#now we need zlib dev headers - dont know why this is not included in build-essential


sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev




# now light at the end of tunnel


# cd into the code directory


cd code


rake build


# that should build Rubinius


# once build is complete, run


shotgun/rubinius -v


This command seems to bring irb like prompt unlike ruby command


Let the fun begin!






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