Install Ruby 1.9.2 from source (Ubuntu 10.04)

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To install ruby 1.9.2 from source quickly just run:
sudo curl https://raw.github.com/gist/2467938/c420a710e78164e4b9443faba8b5e0dd4e5eac16/ubuntu-ruby-192-install | bash

ubuntu-ruby-192-install

#!/usr/bin/env bash
sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libreadline5-dev libyaml-dev
cd /tmp
wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org//pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.2-p320.tar.gz
tar -xvzf ruby-1.9.2-p320.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.9.2-p320/
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
sudo gem install chef ruby-shadow --no-ri --no-rdoc

very handy. thank you :)