Ruby in Debian

This page documents how to install and use Ruby in Debian. For information about the development of Debian Ruby packages, please see Teams/Ruby.

this documentation is work in progress

Debian Wheezy

The following Ruby interpreters are available in Debian Wheezy:

Interpreter

Package

Notes

MRI 1.8.7

ruby1.8

MRI 1.9.3

ruby1.9.3

JRuby X.Y.Z

jruby

Rubinius 2.0

rubinius

Work in progress, not actually available yet

It's possible to switch between different Ruby interpreters as the default ruby program. There are two ways of doing this:

Debian Squeeze

TODO