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Building Ruby

Below versions of Ruby are available in respective distributions at the time of creation of these build instructions:

  • RHEL (8.8, 8.10) have 2.5.9
  • RHEL (9.2, 9.4, 9.5) have 3.0.7
  • SLES 15 SP6 has 2.5.1-21
  • Ubuntu 20.04 has 2.7
  • Ubuntu 22.04 has 3.0
  • Ubuntu 24.04 has 3.2
  • Ubuntu 24.10 has 3.3

The instructions provided below specify the steps to build Ruby version 3.4.2 on Linux on IBM Z following distributions:

  • RHEL (8.8, 8.10, 9.2, 9.4, 9.5)
  • SLES 15 SP6
  • Ubuntu (20.04, 22.04, 24.04, 24.10)

General Notes:

  • When following the steps below please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified.

  • A directory /<source_root>/ will be referred to in these instructions, this is a temporary writable directory anywhere you'd like to place it.

1. Build using script

If you want to build Ruby using manual steps, go to STEP 2.

Use the following commands to build Ruby using the build script. Please make sure you have wget installed.

wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linux-on-ibm-z/scripts/master/Ruby/3.4.2/build_ruby.sh

# Build Ruby
bash build_ruby.sh   [Provide -t option for executing build with tests]

If the build completes successfully, go to STEP 7. In case of error, check logs for more details or go to STEP 2 to follow manual build steps.

2. Install dependencies

export SOURCE_ROOT=/<source_root>/

  • RHEL (8.8, 8.10, 9.2, 9.4, 9.5)

    sudo yum install -y bison flex openssl-devel readline-devel gdbm-devel gcc make wget tar libyaml-devel

  • SLES 15 SP6

    sudo zypper install -y bison flex libopenssl-devel readline-devel gdbm-devel gcc make wget tar gzip gawk libyaml-devel

  • Ubuntu (20.04, 22.04, 24.04, 24.10)

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y gcc make wget tar bison flex openssl libssl-dev libdb-dev libgdbm-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev

3. Download Ruby source code

cd $SOURCE_ROOT
wget http://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/3.4/ruby-3.4.2.tar.gz
tar zxf ruby-3.4.2.tar.gz
cd ruby-3.4.2

4. Configure and Build Ruby

./configure
make

5. Install Ruby

sudo make install

Note: Add /usr/local/bin to PATH environment variable if not already present

6. Test the results (optional)

make test

Note: The tests should not report any failures

7. Verify Ruby

ruby -v
gem env

Note: Rubygems support is contained as part of this build, so gem env should work

References:

The information provided in this article is accurate at the time of writing, but on-going development in the open-source projects involved may make the information incorrect or obsolete. Please open issue or contact us on IBM Z Community if you have any questions or feedback.

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