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