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Ubuntu seems to be the big distro these days. (Remember all of those other “it” distros? Slackware? The original Red Hat? Mandrake? I am vaguely tired of the trendiness of distros.)

Anyway, there is no package yet for Ruby 1.8.6 on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04), which is unfortunate, since mongrel_cluster doesn’t work properly under Ruby 1.8.5.

The install steps I got at Urban Puddle (here) were nice, but Rails still wasn’t happy: I kept getting that awful `require’: no such file to load – rubygems (LoadError) error.

Here’s what I did to fix it. YMMV.

Building Ruby (from Urban Puddle):

tar xjvf ruby-1.8.6.tar.bz2
cd ruby-1.8.6
apt-get build-dep ruby1.8
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

Next, to fix it:

cd /usr/src/rubygems/rubygems-0.9.4
sudo ruby setup.rb

Et voilà :

max@somehost:~ $ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
=> true

I’m not quite sure why the Ruby source doesn’t ship with the rubygems source. Is it because rubygems is still a < 1.0 release?