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building ruby from source on Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type
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ruby.txt
1. sudo apt-get update // downloads the package lists from the repositories and updates them
2. sudo apt-get upgrade // fetches new versions of packages existing on the machine
3. sudo apt-get install build-essential // the tool to build ruby from C is in here
4. sudo apt-get install openssl zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev // without these, gem installs will not work
5. download ruby with wget and cd into it
6. ./configure
7. make
8. sudo make install
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