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Use `gem install -v` You may already be familiar with gem install , but if you add the -v flag, you can specify the version of the gem to install. Using -v you can specify an exact version or use version comparators.
Installing Ruby from Ubuntu Repositories The easiest way to install Ruby on Ubuntu is by using the apt package manager. At the time of writing, the version in the Ubuntu repositories is 2.7. 0 , which may not always be the latest stable release. Your Ruby version may differ from the one shown above.
There is a PPA with up-to-date versions of Ruby 2.x for Ubuntu 12.04+:
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brightbox/ruby-ng
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ruby2.4
$ ruby -v
ruby 2.4.1p111 (2017-03-22 revision 58053) [x86_64-linux-gnu]
First of all, install the prerequisite libraries:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-core curl zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev python-software-properties libffi-dev
Then install rbenv, which is used to install Ruby:
cd
git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL
git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL
rbenv install 2.3.1
rbenv global 2.3.1
ruby -v
Then (optional) tell Rubygems to not install local documentation:
echo "gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc" > ~/.gemrc
Credits: https://gorails.com/setup/ubuntu/14.10
Warning!!!
There are issues with Gnome-Shell. See comment below.
Best is to install it using rvm(ruby version manager).
Run following commands in a terminal:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential make curl
\curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
source ~/.bash_profile
rvm install ruby-2.1.4
Then check ruby versions installed and in use:
rvm list
rvm use --default ruby-2.1.4
Also you can directly add ruby bin path to PATH variable. Ruby is installed in
$HOME/.rvm/rubies export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.4/bin
Use RVM (Ruby Version Manager) to install and manage any versions of Ruby. You can have multiple versions of Ruby installed on the machine and you can easily select the one you want.
To install RVM type into terminal:
\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
And let it work. After that you will have RVM along with Ruby installed.
Source: RVM Site
update ubuntu:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-core curl zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev python-software-properties libffi-dev
Install rvm, which manages the ruby versions:
to install rvm use the following command.
\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
source ~/.bash_profile
rvm install ruby-2.1.4
Check ruby versions installed and in use:
rvm list
rvm use --default ruby-2.1.4
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