Hi all,
Beside http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyWithoutRoot
is there any tutorial to help me really install ruby on linux without root access.
I am trying to installed it on hosting company where I host my website.
regards
Eko
Eko Budi Setiyo wrote:
Hi all,
Beside http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyWithoutRoot
is there any tutorial to help me really install ruby on linux without root access.
I am trying to installed it on hosting company where I host my website.
What sort of access do you have? telnet? ssh? ftp?
I've had success compiling Ruby (including running autoconf) on a remote hosting site where all I had was ftp and http access; I wrote perl and php scripts, called them through a Web page, and ended up with ruby installed under my home dir.
Life got better after that.
James
Hi ..
Hi all,
Beside http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyWithoutRoot
is there any tutorial to help me really install ruby on linux without
root access.
I am trying to installed it on hosting company where I host my website.
So, this is pretty straight forward:
1. get the tar ball (ruby-1.8.2.tar.gz)
2. unbundle it ($ tar zxf ruby-1.8.2.tar.gz)
3. run configure using --prefix
$ ./configure --prefix=/my/dest/dir
4. make
5. make install
And you are done. There are three directories under /my/dest/dir
bin -- add this to your path
lib
etc
then test it with
$ rehash (assuming the shell)
$ which ruby
$ ruby -v
I hope this helps.
Regards,
···
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-mark. (probertm at acm dot org)
Eko Budi Setiyo wrote:
Beside http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyWithoutRoot
is there any tutorial to help me really install ruby on linux without root access.
I am trying to installed it on hosting company where I host my website.
Someone will eventually suggest this, so it might as well be me.
Consider asking your provider to install Ruby, or consider switching provider. Ruby should be there by default on a growing number of Linux distributions (like Debian) as many tools are now written in Ruby.
···
--
dave
Beside http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyWithoutRoot is
there any tutorial to help me really install ruby on linux
without root access.
If you run Linux on your machine, you might want to use
AllInOneRuby [1] to create allinoneruby.bin, which is a big
binary embedding the Ruby interpreter and the runtime
environment, and copy this file to the machine of your
provider. I've done this several times. Works flawlessly as
long as your GCC-version isn't newer than the one of your
provider...
In one xterm:
$ ruby allinoneruby.rb
Stripping...
Creating allinoneruby.bin ...
$ tar c allinoneruby.bin | nc -l -p 1234
In another xterm:
$ ssh erik@ssh.my.provider -R 1234:localhost:1234
erik@ssh.my.provider's password:
erik@shh.my.provider:~> nc localhost 1234 | tar x
erik@shh.my.provider:~> echo "p 1234" > test.rb
erik@shh.my.provider:~> ./allinoneruby.bin test.rb
1234
That's how I do this. No installation, no admin things. Just
one Ruby executable.
gegroet,
Erik V.
[1] AllInOneRuby - A "Just-in-Time and Temporary Installation of Ruby"
James Britt wrote:
Eko Budi Setiyo wrote:
Hi all,
Beside http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyWithoutRoot
is there any tutorial to help me really install ruby on linux without root access.
I am trying to installed it on hosting company where I host my website.What sort of access do you have? telnet? ssh? ftp?
I've had success compiling Ruby (including running autoconf) on a remote hosting site where all I had was ftp and http access; I wrote perl and php scripts, called them through a Web page, and ended up with ruby installed under my home dir.
Life got better after that.
James
I have fpt,ssh and of coruse http access. Do you mind share your way to us.
regards
Eko
James Britt wrote:
Eko Budi Setiyo wrote:
Hi all,
Beside http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyWithoutRoot
is there any tutorial to help me really install ruby on linux without root access.
I am trying to installed it on hosting company where I host my website.What sort of access do you have? telnet? ssh? ftp?
I've had success compiling Ruby (including running autoconf) on a remote hosting site where all I had was ftp and http access; I wrote perl and php scripts, called them through a Web page, and ended up with ruby installed under my home dir.
Life got better after that.
James
One more, I don't use Perly, but PHP is my other language beside Ruby. The hosting already installe ruby 1.65 but the said they don't support ruby 1.8x currently. So I need to do it my self.
regards
Eko
Mark Probert wrote:
Hi ..
Hi all,
Beside http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyWithoutRoot
is there any tutorial to help me really install ruby on linux without
root access.
I am trying to installed it on hosting company where I host my website.So, this is pretty straight forward:
1. get the tar ball (ruby-1.8.2.tar.gz)
2. unbundle it ($ tar zxf ruby-1.8.2.tar.gz)
3. run configure using --prefix
$ ./configure --prefix=/my/dest/dir
4. make
5. make install
And you are done. There are three directories under /my/dest/dir
bin -- add this to your path
lib
etcthen test it with
$ rehash (assuming the shell)
$ which ruby
$ ruby -vI hope this helps.
Regards,
I get error on step 3
Here is the errror
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On Wednesday 16 February 2005 18:11, Eko Budi Setiyo wrote:
################################################################################
[ekobudi@spruce ruby-1.8.2]$ ./configure --prefix=/home/ekobudi/stow/ruby
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
[ekobudi@spruce ruby-1.8.2]$
Eko Budi Setiyo wrote:
James Britt wrote:
Eko Budi Setiyo wrote:
Hi all,
Beside Captcha
is there any tutorial to help me really install ruby on linux without root access.
I am trying to installed it on hosting company where I host my website.What sort of access do you have? telnet? ssh? ftp?
I've had success compiling Ruby (including running autoconf) on a remote hosting site where all I had was ftp and http access; I wrote perl and php scripts, called them through a Web page, and ended up with ruby installed under my home dir.
Life got better after that.
James
I have fpt,ssh and of coruse http access. Do you mind share your way to us.
If you have ssh, you're in like Flynn.
The only trick is that you have to tell ./configure to install the binaries into your home dir (--prefix=$HOME/ruby or something like that).
For those with only ftp/http (as I've been asked this before)
FTP up the ruby tarball and some perl/php scripts.
The perl/php needs to call system() or exec() or whatever it is called to shell out and:
Extract the tarball to a nice home
run ./configure in the ruby source dir
run make
run make test
run make install
Very important: the call to 'configure' *must* pass the config options to put the binaries under $HOME/ruby or something similar. Otherwise it tries to go to /usr/local/ and that will fail. (I don't have a 'nix system handy to tell you exactly what these are. I think its --prefix=$HOME/ruby or some such thing. Run ./configure --help to be sure. Or Google for it.)
Tip for the Perl code: use carp, which is a lib for getting nice CGI errors logged for you. It can be tricky to get each step right, and tracking down goofy CGI and syntax errors can get annoying.
Code will probably need to either cd to the installation dir before running specific commands, or make all system calls using full paths. You also have to check what permissions are set on files. You may end up with files owned by www or apache or something, so have the perl/php code call chmod and chown along the way.
Sorry the details are so vague; I did this about 4 years ago and never really kept track of the scripts I wrote to do this. But either perl or PHP will do, as they both allow shell calls and writing messages back to the browser. They're pretty useful for stuff like that.
If you want to be clever you could probably just write a form that takes a string and executes it via a system() call. Then just pass in each command you need.
Just don't name it index.php.
And your Ruby code will need to use the correct path (i.e. not /usr/local/bin/ruby) to your ruby binaries once you are up and running.
James
compiler cannot create executables
I guess you cannot do anything about this, thats a limitation enforced
by your provider. Either the provider allows excutables, switches to
ruby 1.8.x, or you switch the provider...
martinus
find out what the providers running. install it. build. copy.
Alex
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On Feb 17, 2005, at 7:54 AM, Eko Budi Setiyo wrote:
Here is the errror
################################################################################
[ekobudi@spruce ruby-1.8.2]$ ./configure --prefix=/home/ekobudi/stow/ruby
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
[ekobudi@spruce ruby-1.8.2]$
How much long are you going to read that output, paste that output,
before looking for more details in config.log?
The suspense is killing me here... I was really hoping you'd tell us
about the juicy error information in config.log! 
Cheers,
Navin.
···
Eko Budi Setiyo <contact_us@haltebis.com> wrote:
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
James Britt wrote:
Eko Budi Setiyo wrote:
James Britt wrote:
Eko Budi Setiyo wrote:
Hi all,
Beside http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyWithoutRoot
is there any tutorial to help me really install ruby on linux without root access.
I am trying to installed it on hosting company where I host my website.What sort of access do you have? telnet? ssh? ftp?
I've had success compiling Ruby (including running autoconf) on a remote hosting site where all I had was ftp and http access; I wrote perl and php scripts, called them through a Web page, and ended up with ruby installed under my home dir.
Life got better after that.
James
I have fpt,ssh and of coruse http access. Do you mind share your way to us.
If you have ssh, you're in like Flynn.
The only trick is that you have to tell ./configure to install the binaries into your home dir (--prefix=$HOME/ruby or something like that).
I tried, but get the following error
···
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ekobudi@spruce ruby-1.8.2]$ configure --prefix=/home/ekobudi/stow/ruby
bash: configure: command not found
[ekobudi@spruce ruby-1.8.2]$ ./configure --prefix=/home/ekobudi/stow/ruby
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
[ekobudi@spruce ruby-1.8.2]$
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
any idea what should I do.
regards
Eko
For those with only ftp/http (as I've been asked this before)
FTP up the ruby tarball and some perl/php scripts.
The perl/php needs to call system() or exec() or whatever it is called to shell out and:
Extract the tarball to a nice home
run ./configure in the ruby source dir
run make
run make test
run make installVery important: the call to 'configure' *must* pass the config options to put the binaries under $HOME/ruby or something similar. Otherwise it tries to go to /usr/local/ and that will fail. (I don't have a 'nix system handy to tell you exactly what these are. I think its --prefix=$HOME/ruby or some such thing. Run ./configure --help to be sure. Or Google for it.)
Tip for the Perl code: use carp, which is a lib for getting nice CGI errors logged for you. It can be tricky to get each step right, and tracking down goofy CGI and syntax errors can get annoying.
Code will probably need to either cd to the installation dir before running specific commands, or make all system calls using full paths. You also have to check what permissions are set on files. You may end up with files owned by www or apache or something, so have the perl/php code call chmod and chown along the way.
Sorry the details are so vague; I did this about 4 years ago and never really kept track of the scripts I wrote to do this. But either perl or PHP will do, as they both allow shell calls and writing messages back to the browser. They're pretty useful for stuff like that.
If you want to be clever you could probably just write a form that takes a string and executes it via a system() call. Then just pass in each command you need.
Just don't name it index.php.
And your Ruby code will need to use the correct path (i.e. not /usr/local/bin/ruby) to your ruby binaries once you are up and running.
James
Navindra Umanee wrote:
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Eko Budi Setiyo <contact_us@haltebis.com> wrote:
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
How much long are you going to read that output, paste that output,
before looking for more details in config.log?The suspense is killing me here... I was really hoping you'd tell us
about the juicy error information in config.log!Cheers,
Navin.
Sory for that 
Here is from the config.log
####################################
[ekobudi@spruce ruby-1.8.2]$ vi config.log
## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##
configure:1402: checking build system type
configure:1420: result: i686-pc-linux-gnu
configure:1428: checking host system type
configure:1442: result: i686-pc-linux-gnu
configure:1450: checking target system type
configure:1464: result: i686-pc-linux-gnu
configure:1691: checking for gcc
configure:1707: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:1717: result: gcc
configure:1961: checking for C compiler version
configure:1964: gcc --version </dev/null >&5
./configure: /usr/bin/gcc: Permission denied
configure:1967: $? = 126
configure:1969: gcc -v </dev/null >&5
./configure: /usr/bin/gcc: Permission denied
configure:1972: $? = 126
configure:1974: gcc -V </dev/null >&5
"config.log" 251L, 5126C 46,1 14%
#########################################################
Any suggestion
regards
Eko
It may be so that your provider has the filesystem where your home reside mounted with noexec option. You can check it by creating a simple shell script in your home and trying chmod a+x on it. If it does not make the script executable, then you are doomed. Potentially, you could try their /tmp directory if it allows executable files and if it does, build ruby there by something like:
$ mkdir /tmp/dir_for_ruby_build
$ cd /tmp/dir_for_ruby_build
$ ${HOME}/dir_with_ruby_source/configure --prefix ${HOME}/ruby
...
$ make
...
$ make install
In this case you will have to create a launcher script, say ruby.sh, that you will call with "sh ruby.sh". It will copy ${HOME}/ruby/bin/ruby to /tmp, chmod a+x on it and then exec.
Gennady.
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On Feb 16, 2005, at 9:51 PM, Eko Budi Setiyo wrote:
James Britt wrote:
Eko Budi Setiyo wrote:
James Britt wrote:
Eko Budi Setiyo wrote:
Hi all,
Beside http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyWithoutRoot
is there any tutorial to help me really install ruby on linux without root access.
I am trying to installed it on hosting company where I host my website.What sort of access do you have? telnet? ssh? ftp?
I've had success compiling Ruby (including running autoconf) on a remote hosting site where all I had was ftp and http access; I wrote perl and php scripts, called them through a Web page, and ended up with ruby installed under my home dir.
Life got better after that.
James
I have fpt,ssh and of coruse http access. Do you mind share your way to us.
If you have ssh, you're in like Flynn.
The only trick is that you have to tell ./configure to install the binaries into your home dir (--prefix=$HOME/ruby or something like that).
I tried, but get the following error
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ekobudi@spruce ruby-1.8.2]$ configure --prefix=/home/ekobudi/stow/ruby
bash: configure: command not found
[ekobudi@spruce ruby-1.8.2]$ ./configure --prefix=/home/ekobudi/stow/ruby
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
[ekobudi@spruce ruby-1.8.2]$
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------any idea what should I do.
regards
EkoFor those with only ftp/http (as I've been asked this before)
FTP up the ruby tarball and some perl/php scripts.
The perl/php needs to call system() or exec() or whatever it is called to shell out and:
Extract the tarball to a nice home
run ./configure in the ruby source dir
run make
run make test
run make installVery important: the call to 'configure' *must* pass the config options to put the binaries under $HOME/ruby or something similar. Otherwise it tries to go to /usr/local/ and that will fail. (I don't have a 'nix system handy to tell you exactly what these are. I think its --prefix=$HOME/ruby or some such thing. Run ./configure --help to be sure. Or Google for it.)
Tip for the Perl code: use carp, which is a lib for getting nice CGI errors logged for you. It can be tricky to get each step right, and tracking down goofy CGI and syntax errors can get annoying.
Code will probably need to either cd to the installation dir before running specific commands, or make all system calls using full paths. You also have to check what permissions are set on files. You may end up with files owned by www or apache or something, so have the perl/php code call chmod and chown along the way.
Sorry the details are so vague; I did this about 4 years ago and never really kept track of the scripts I wrote to do this. But either perl or PHP will do, as they both allow shell calls and writing messages back to the browser. They're pretty useful for stuff like that.
If you want to be clever you could probably just write a form that takes a string and executes it via a system() call. Then just pass in each command you need.
Just don't name it index.php.
And your Ruby code will need to use the correct path (i.e. not /usr/local/bin/ruby) to your ruby binaries once you are up and running.
James
Sincerely,
Gennady Bystritsky
Hi ..
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On Thursday 17 February 2005 17:03, Eko Budi Setiyo wrote:
Navindra Umanee wrote:
>Eko Budi Setiyo <contact_us@haltebis.com> wrote:
>>checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
>>compiler cannot create executables
>>See `config.log' for more details.
>configure:1707: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:1717: result: gcc
configure:1961: checking for C compiler version
configure:1964: gcc --version </dev/null >&5
./configure: /usr/bin/gcc: Permission deniedAny suggestion
Get the sysadmin to change the permissions on gcc. 755 may be suitable ...
--
-mark. (probertm at acm dot org)
Mark Probert wrote:
Hi ..
Navindra Umanee wrote:
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
configure:1707: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:1717: result: gcc
configure:1961: checking for C compiler version
configure:1964: gcc --version </dev/null >&5
./configure: /usr/bin/gcc: Permission deniedAny suggestion
Get the sysadmin to change the permissions on gcc. 755 may be suitable ...
I will do this
thanks
···
On Thursday 17 February 2005 17:03, Eko Budi Setiyo wrote:
Eko Budi Setiyo <contact_us@haltebis.com> wrote: