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Installing the latest version of Ruby on Raspberry pi

First

  • This is almost the same way to install in Debian.
  • Please be patient because it may take several hours to install Razpai because the spec is low.

Prerequisites

  • Body: Raspberry Pi 1 Model B+
  • Memory card: 8GB
  • OS: Latest version of Raspbian installed

rbenv installation

Install rbenv and write the configuration to the bash configuration file, if you use zsh, etc.

> sudo apt-get install rbenv
> echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> .bashrc
> echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> .bashrc
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Confirmation of installation

> rbenv
> rbenv x.x.x #version to be displayed
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Installing ### git

If git is not installed, install git.

> sudo apt-get install git
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Install ruby-build

I'm going to clone ruby-build from git.

> git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build

> rbenv install --list
there are 2.3.1 and the latest version of Cruby 2.3

rbenv install 2.3.1
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Troubleshooting

If you don't have enough libraries in your Ruby installation, you can try to add them by using the following command

> sudo apt-get install autoconf bison build-essential libssl-dev libyaml-dev libreadline6-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgdbm3 libgdbm-dev
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Reference: https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build/wiki#suggested-build-environment

If you installed ruby-build with apt-get

Even if I install ruby-build by apt-get, there is no latest version of Ruby in the list of available installables.
At runtime, ruby-2.2.0-preview is the latest version, and there is no 2.3 system of the latest version at this time.

> sudo apt-get install ruby-build
> rbenv install --list
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To uninstall ruby-build, click here

> sudo apt-get remove ruby-build
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Top comments (2)

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nerdcraft-muc

Hi kon_yu,
I strictly followed your instructions and now there seems to bee a working ruby installation in /versions/3.2.0 but the system still runs the old ruby version 2.3.3.

Any idea what I can try?

BTW: I am not really a Linux expert.

Thanks in advance!

Rick

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@kon_yu

Thank you for your comment.

Did you set global version setting? Like below
rbenv global 3.2.0

Another tips

rbenv rehash
Or
reload shell
exec $SHELL -l