$ switch-ruby
Usage: /Users/cpetschnig/bin/switch-ruby [OPTION]... [Ruby Version index]
Available Ruby Versions:
1. RUBY_VERSION => 2.0.0
RUBY_DESCRIPTION => ruby 2.0.0p247 (2013-06-27) [x86_64-darwin13.0.0]
Location => /Users/cpetschnig/.rb/ruby-2.0.0-p247
2. RUBY_VERSION => 1.9.3
RUBY_DESCRIPTION => ruby 1.9.3p484 (2013-11-22 revision 43786) [x86_64-darwin13.0.0]
Location => /Users/cpetschnig/.rb/ruby-1.9.3-p484
OPTIONS:
-h, --help Show this message
-v, --verbose Be more chatty
$ switch-ruby 1
You are now using ruby 2.0.0p247 (2013-06-27) [x86_64-darwin13.0.0]
Create a directory, that will contain a symbolic link to your ruby /bin folder, where all Ruby executables lie:
$ mkdir ~/.rb
Create a directory where you put your Ruby source files into:
$ mkdir ~/.rb/src
I prefer to leave all ruby-0.0.0-p000.tar.gz in the /cache directory:
$ mkdir ~/.rb/cache
Now make sure it will be the first directory when looking for executables. Put the following line in your /etc/profile or ~/.bash.rc files:
export PATH=$HOME/.rb/bin:$PATH
Make your switch-ruby file executable on your system. You should know how to do this by youself.
Download the Ruby source and put it into the ~/.rb/cache folder:
$ cd ~/.rb/cache $ wget http://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.0/ruby-2.0.0-p353.tar.gz
Extract it to the ~/.rb/src folder:
$ cd ~/.rb/src $ tar xzvf ../cache/ruby-2.0.0-p353.tar.gz
Build and install Ruby:
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/.rb/ruby-2.0.0-p353 $ make $ make install
The new Ruby will now be listed when you run
$ switch-ruby
-h, --help Show a help message
-v, --verbose Gives a lot of information what the program is doing
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