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# What's Ruby
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Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented
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programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system
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management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and
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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-like/POSIX compatible platforms as
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well as Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS etc.) cf.
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http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-trunk/wiki/SupportedPlatforms
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## How to get Ruby
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For a complete list of ways to install Ruby, including using third party tools
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like rvm, see:
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http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/
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The Ruby distribution files can be found in the following FTP site:
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ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/
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The trunk of the Ruby source tree can be checked out with the following
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command:
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$ svn co http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk/ ruby
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Or if you are using git then use the following command:
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$ git clone git://github.com/ruby/ruby.git
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There are some other branches under development. Try the following command
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and see the list of branches:
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$ svn ls http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/branches/
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Or if you are using git then use the following command:
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$ git ls-remote git://github.com/ruby/ruby.git
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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. To subscribe this list, please
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send the following phrase
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subscribe
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in the mail body (not subject) to the address
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<mailto:ruby-talk-request@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 you want to use Microsoft Visual C++ to compile ruby, read
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win32/README.win32 instead of this document.
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2. If `./configure` does not exist or is older than configure.in, run
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autoconf to (re)generate configure.
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3. Run `./configure`, which will generate config.h and Makefile.
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Some C compiler flags may be added by default depending on your
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environment. Specify `optflags=..` and `warnflags=..` as necessary to
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override them.
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4. Edit `defines.h` if you need. Usually this step will not be needed.
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5. Remove comment mark(`#`) before the module names from `ext/Setup` (or add
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module names if not present), if you want to link modules statically.
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If you don't want to compile non static extension modules (probably on
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architectures which does not allow dynamic loading), remove comment mark
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from the line "`#option nodynamic`" in `ext/Setup`.
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Usually this step will not be needed.
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6. Run `make`.
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7. Optionally, run '`make check`' to check whether the compiled Ruby
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interpreter works well. If you see the message "`check succeeded`", your
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ruby works as it should (hopefully).
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8. Run '`make install`'
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This command will create following directories and install files onto
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them.
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* `${DESTDIR}${prefix}/bin`
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* `${DESTDIR}${prefix}/include/ruby-${MAJOR}.${MINOR}.${TEENY}`
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* `${DESTDIR}${prefix}/include/ruby-${MAJOR}.${MINOR}.${TEENY}/${PLATFOR
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M}`
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* `${DESTDIR}${prefix}/lib`
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* `${DESTDIR}${prefix}/lib/ruby`
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* `${DESTDIR}${prefix}/lib/ruby/${MAJOR}.${MINOR}.${TEENY}`
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* `${DESTDIR}${prefix}/lib/ruby/${MAJOR}.${MINOR}.${TEENY}/${PLATFORM}`
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* `${DESTDIR}${prefix}/lib/ruby/site_ruby`
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* `${DESTDIR}${prefix}/lib/ruby/site_ruby/${MAJOR}.${MINOR}.${TEENY}`
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* `${DESTDIR}${prefix}/lib/ruby/site_ruby/${MAJOR}.${MINOR}.${TEENY}/${P
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LATFORM}`
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* `${DESTDIR}${prefix}/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby`
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* `${DESTDIR}${prefix}/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/${MAJOR}.${MINOR}.${TEENY}`
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* `${DESTDIR}${prefix}/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/${MAJOR}.${MINOR}.${TEENY}/$
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{PLATFORM}`
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* `${DESTDIR}${prefix}/lib/ruby/gems/${MAJOR}.${MINOR}.${TEENY}`
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* `${DESTDIR}${prefix}/share/man/man1`
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* `${DESTDIR}${prefix}/share/ri/${MAJOR}.${MINOR}.${TEENY}/system`
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If Ruby's API version is '*x.y.z*', the `${MAJOR}` is '*x*', the
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`${MINOR}` is '*y*', and the `${TEENY}` is '*z*'.
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**NOTE**: teeny of the API version may be different from one of Ruby's
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program version
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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 the
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error log and machine/OS type, to help others.
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Some extension libraries may not get compiled because of lack of necessary
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external libraries and/or headers, then you will need to run '`make
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distclean-ext`' to remove old configuration after installing them in such
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case.
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## Copying
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See the file `COPYING`.
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## Feedback
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Questions about the Ruby language can be asked on the Ruby-Talk mailing list
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(http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/mailing-lists) or on websites like
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(http://stackoverflow.com).
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Bug reports should be filed at http://bugs.ruby-lang.org
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## The Author
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Ruby was originally designed and developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz) in
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1995.
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<mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org>
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