3 Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and
4 easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to
5 process text files and to do system management tasks (as in
6 Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.
12 + *Normal* Object-Oriented features(ex. class, method calls)
13 + *Advanced* Object-Oriented features(ex. Mix-in, Singleton-method)
14 + Operator Overloading
16 + Iterators and Closures
18 + Dynamic Loading of Object files(on some architecture)
19 + Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS,
20 Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.)
25 The Ruby distribution files can be found in the following FTP site:
27 ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/
29 The trunk of the Ruby source tree can be checked out with the
32 $ svn co http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk/ ruby
34 There are some other branches under development. Try the following
35 command and see the list of branches:
37 $ svn ls http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/branches/
42 The URL of the Ruby home-page is:
44 http://www.ruby-lang.org/
49 There is a mailing list to talk about Ruby.
50 To subscribe this list, please send the following phrase
52 subscribe YourFirstName YourFamilyName
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56 in the mail body (not subject) to the address <ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org>.
59 * How to compile and install
61 This is what you need to do to compile and install Ruby:
63 1. If ./configure does not exist or is older than configure.in,
64 run autoconf to (re)generate configure.
66 2. Run ./configure, which will generate config.h and Makefile.
68 3. Edit defines.h if you need. Usually this step will not be needed.
70 4. Remove comment mark(#) before the module names from ext/Setup (or
71 add module names if not present), if you want to link modules
74 If you don't want to compile non static extension modules
75 (probably on architectures which does not allow dynamic loading),
76 remove comment mark from the line "#option nodynamic" in
81 6. Optionally, run 'make test' to check whether the compiled Ruby
82 interpreter works well. If you see the message "test succeeded",
83 your ruby works as it should (hopefully).
87 You may have to be a super user to install ruby.
89 If you fail to compile ruby, please send the detailed error report with
90 the error log and machine/OS type, to help others.
100 Feel free to send comments and bug reports to the author. Here is the
101 author's latest mail address:
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106 created at: Thu Aug 3 11:57:36 JST 1995