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* What's Ruby
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Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and
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easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to
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process text files and to do system management tasks (as in
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Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.
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* Features of Ruby
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+ Simple Syntax
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+ *Normal* Object-Oriented features(ex. class, method calls)
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+ *Advanced* Object-Oriented features(ex. Mix-in, Singleton-method)
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+ Operator Overloading
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+ Exception Handling
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+ Iterators and Closures
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+ Garbage Collection
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+ Dynamic Loading of Object files(on some architecture)
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+ Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS,
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Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.)
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* How to get Ruby
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The Ruby distribution can be found on:
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ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/
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You can get it by anonymous SVN. How to check out is:
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$ svn co http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/branches/ruby_1_8 ruby
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* Ruby home-page
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The URL of the Ruby home-page is:
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http://www.ruby-lang.org/
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* Mailing list
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There is a mailing list to talk about Ruby.
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To subscribe this list, please send the following phrase
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subscribe YourFirstName YourFamilyName
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e.g.
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subscribe Joseph Smith
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in the mail body (not subject) to the address <ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org>.
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* How to compile and install
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This is what you need to do to compile and install Ruby:
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1. If ./configure does not exist or is older than configure.in,
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run autoconf to (re)generate configure.
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2. Run ./configure, which will generate config.h and Makefile.
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3. Edit defines.h if you need. Usually this step will not be needed.
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4. Remove comment mark(#) before the module names from ext/Setup (or
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add module names if not present), if you want to link modules
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statically.
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If you don't want to compile non static extension modules
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(probably on architectures which does not allow dynamic loading),
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remove comment mark from the line "#option nodynamic" in
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ext/Setup.
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5. Run make.
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6. Optionally, run 'make test' to check whether the compiled Ruby
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interpreter works well. If you see the message "test succeeded",
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your ruby works as it should (hopefully).
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7. Run 'make install'
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You may have to be a super user to install ruby.
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If you fail to compile ruby, please send the detailed error report with
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the error log and machine/OS type, to help others.
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* Copying
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See the file COPYING.
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* The Author
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Feel free to send comments and bug reports to the author. Here is the
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author's latest mail address:
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matz@netlab.jp
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created at: Thu Aug 3 11:57:36 JST 1995
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