Learn How To Install RubyGems on Linux
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RubyGems is a package manager for Ruby. A package manager organizes packages during development of an application. In this doc, you will learn how to install RubyGems on Linux. I have included instructions for both Ubuntu and CentOS.
Prerequisites
Ruby must have already been installed. If you need to install Ruby, see the following guides:
https://www.itweb.services/tutorials/linux-guides/installing-ruby-on-rails-on-ubuntu-14-04″>Ubuntu 14.04 (Step 3)
https://www.itweb.services/tutorials/linux-guides/install-ruby-on-rails-with-rbenv-on-centos-7″>CentOS 7 (Step 3)
Ubuntu
You will need wget to download RubyGems, install it if you haven’t already:
apt-get install wget
Next, we can download RubyGems using wget:
wget http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.5.0.tgz
We can now untar RubyGems:
tar xvf rubygems*
We can now install RubyGems using Ruby:
ruby setup.rb
You can now use the RubyGems commands. For a full list, please refer to the official website.
CentOS
If you do not have wget installed yet, install it:
yum install wget
After installation of wget, we can download RubyGems:
wget http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.5.0.tgz
Next, we have to untar RubyGems:
tar xvf rubygems*
Enter its directory:
cd rubygems-1.5.0
We can now install RubyGems using Ruby:
ruby setup.rb
You can now use the RubyGems commands. For a full list, please refer to the official website.
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