rubygems Getting started with rubygems

Remarks

Change gem source

# list gem sources:
gem sources -l
# remove default gem source:
gem sources -r https://rubygems.org/
# add other gem sources:
gem sources -a https://ruby.taobao.org/
 

Install specific precompiled ruby version and ruby gems (Ubuntu)

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brightbox/ruby-ng

Hit Enter to confirm

sudo apt-get update

Then you can install your ruby version of choice (the ppa supports ruby2.0 ruby2.1 ruby2.2 ruby2.3 and legacy versions ruby1.8 ruby1.9.1 ) Don't forget to include the respective -dev package for your version. Otherwise the development of native extensions such as Nokogiri or mysql2 will fail.

sudo apt-get install ruby2.3 ruby2.3-dev ruby-switch

sudo ruby-switch set ruby2.3

ruby -v

>> ruby 2.3.1p112 (2016-04-26) [x86_64-linux-gnu]

Now you can install any desired gem systemwide for all users via sudo gem install gemname .

Note:

• This method installs and sets ruby and rubygems system-wide for all users
• Requires sudo to install gems (sudo gem install rails ) but don't run bundle as root. If it needs to install gems it will ask for the sudo password.

Installation on Linux

Make sure you have ruby installed before installing rubygems, and then:

Installing RubyGems Using apt-get on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install rubygems
 

Installing RubyGems Using yum

sudo yum install rubygems
 

Manual Installation Method

wget https://rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-2.6.6.tgz
tar xvf rubygems-2.6.6.tgz
cd rubygems-2.6.6
sudo ruby setup.rb
 

Installation or Setup

If you don't have any RubyGems installed, there is still the pre-gem approach to getting software, doing it manually:

• Download from RubyGems

• Unpack into a directory and cd there

• Install with: ruby setup.rb (you may need admin/root privilege)

  sudo ruby setup.rb
   

For more details and other options, see:

ruby setup.rb --help