Ruby Install

[cjnkns]

I just finished installing ruby from the synaptic package manger, but I can't seem to run the interpreter(sp). I issue a ruby myprog.rb from the command line and it doesn't work; tells me command not found

If someone could point in the the right direction to get this to work I would appreciate it.

[TheDarkSavant]

Re: Ruby Install

I just finished installing ruby from the synaptic package manger, but I can't seem to run the interpreter(sp). I issue a ruby myprog.rb from the command line and it doesn't work; tells me command not found

If someone could point in the the right direction to get this to work I would appreciate it.

I've seen this before. It seems that the $PATH is cached, so programs recently installed sometimes won't run right away. I have not seen this since upgrading to Dapper.

Run

which ruby

to find out the full path then run it using the full path until the $PATH catches up

[cjnkns]

Re: Ruby Install

Thanks a million! I never would have figured that one out.. I'll give it a shot.

[cjnkns]

Re: Ruby Install

Hmmm I tried the "which ruby" command and it doesn't give me anything; just another command prompt.. I tired it with javac and it worked though.

Any ideas?

[askrieger]

Re: Ruby Install

Of course, one possibility is that the ruby installation failed. There is a way to check this and to find ruby. In a konsole type

sudo updatedb  <--- reloads the intalled files data base
locate ruby  <--- looks for ALL files with "ruby" in name