has anyone tried installing ruby & rubygems from source on Ubuntu (preferably Ubuntu 9)?

Question

The Ruby on Rails website recommends installing Ruby from source under Linux. I encountered a number of C library problems building ruby from source on a clean install of Ub

Answer 1

I don't see what your problem is. You say that require 'zlib' returns false. But that means that it did work! If there were an error, you would get a LoadError exception.