how to install ERb?

[Malamute Jute]

hi everyone. im reading and following the ruby for rails book and im on
ERb now. but when i run erb, i get command not found error. so i guess
its not installed by default with ruby?

how do i install it? and where do i get it? many thanks.

 

[Chad Fowler]

hi everyone. im reading and following the ruby for rails book and im on
ERb now. but when i run erb, i get command not found error. so i guess
its not installed by default with ruby?

how do i install it? and where do i get it? many thanks.

It's typically installed with the standard Ruby distribution. If
you're using a Linux system with split up Ruby packages, you may find
it in the list of additional packages to be installed.

Chad

 

[Malamute Jute]

It's typically installed with the standard Ruby distribution. If
you're using a Linux system with split up Ruby packages, you may find
it in the list of additional packages to be installed.

Chad

Actually i checked the synaptic (im using edgy eft) and didnt find the
'erb'. i checked again and this time i searched for 'ruby'. now i see
eRuby. its installed now but i have to manually make erb symlink to
/usr/bin/erb1.8.

thanks chad. btw, i also have the rails recipes book and i hope i could
read it soon once im comfortable with rails/ruby. thanks again.

 

[David Vallner]

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Argh Debian deconstructivism. Isn't there a ticket to make a "full
distribution" metapackage for Ruby already? This always gets me on a new
Ubuntu install, for some reason irb and erb, and some of the standard
extensions aren't even recommended packages.

David Vallner


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[dblack]

Hi --

Argh Debian deconstructivism. Isn't there a ticket to make a "full
distribution" metapackage for Ruby already? This always gets me on a new
Ubuntu install, for some reason irb and erb, and some of the standard
extensions aren't even recommended packages.

It is tiresome. I always recommend installing Ruby from source, on
any machine where you can.


David

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[znmeb]

Quoting (e-mail address removed):

It is tiresome. I always recommend installing Ruby from source, on
any machine where you can.

I'm starting to lean that way even on Gentoo, where it *is* installed from
source. I guess we're waiting for Curt, Austin and MicroSoft to get the
Visual C stuff straightened out to make this a reality on Windows. Any recent
updates on that front?