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Posts from August 2007

JRuby in a JAR

A bit of fairy dust, a sprinkle of elven blood, lots of water and boil it all for 5 hours on a low fire. What you get? … I wouldn’t know, but I do know that it took me almost 2 whole days to grasp the idea of a JRuby in a JAR, with two [...]


Posted
13 August 2007 @ 2pm

Tagged
gems, irb, ruby

Install RubyGems from irb

I started using NetBeans recently. And find it’s ruby support superb! (as far as an IDE can go). But there was an error installing gems with their gui manager, and I was wondering how to debug that. A quick peek into ruby/bin/gem revealed much of what I needed to know. Lets demonstrate :