We ll now install a particular version of ruby.
Install ruby 2 6 and add its location to your path.
You should therefore stay on 2 6 until 2 7 is well supported unless you want to contribute and fix remaining issues.
See the ruby 2 7 0 release post and the the rubyinstaller changelog for more details.
The installation process modifies your bashrc file to add the rvm bin folder to your path environment variable so you can run the rvm command easily.
Rvm ruby version manager rvm allows you to install and manage multiple installations of ruby on your system.
Rbenv install l the output of that command should be a long list of versions that you can choose to install.
So if you run cd mnt c you ll be at the root of the c drive.
This is because gems with c extensions are not compatible between ruby 2 5 and 2 6.
It can also manage different gemsets.
Please note that some gems are not yet compatible with ruby 2 7 on windows.
Find more in the faq.
With the ruby build rbenv plugin now installed we can install whatever versions of ruby that we may need through a simple command.
If you want to use microsoft visual c to compile ruby read win32 readme win32 instead of this document.
Your computer s c drive is visible in the wsl at the path mnt c mnt is a linux convention for the location where drives are mounted and c refers to your c drive.
These gems will be loaded for you without having to require them.
Rubyinstaller 2 7 0 1 has been released.
That s where you write what gems you want to use for your ruby application.
It can be used for continuous integration tests ci on your gems or applications so that you re prepared for upcoming changes to the ruby.
Refer to your distribution s documentation and community forums for help installing ruby on distributions other than ubuntu or its variants.
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That s why bundler exists.
First let s list all the available versions of ruby.
If configure does not exist or is older than configure ac run autoconf to re generate configure.
Rubyinstaller head is a daily updated version of the ruby development branch.
Every distribution is different.
Your regular ruby application isn t built as a gem so it doesn t get this feature.
This is what you need to do to compile and install ruby.
A gemfile looks like this.
Both tools are available for macos linux or other unix like operating systems.
Look for the.
However the rvm command won t be accessible in your.
For distributions other than ubuntu if your distribution doesn t provide a tool like apt get then you can use a site such as rpmfind to find ruby packages.
