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

Did you install libzlib-ruby? Here's my typical Ubuntu initialization before installing Rubygems:

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get dist-upgrade
$ apt-get install build-essential -y
$ apt-get install rsync -y
$ apt-get install ruby ri rdoc irb ri1.8 ruby1.8-dev libzlib-ruby zlib1g libopenssl-ruby -y