Upgrade Ruby Notes

Steps for installing Ruby without RVM or RBENV

1. download the ruby .tar.gz from https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/
2. uncompress the tarball
3. cd into the uncompressed directory
4. ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
5. make
6. sudo make install
7. test the proper version is in place with ruby -v

Steps for installing Ruby with RBENV

1. rbenv install version.number
2. See all available versions with rbenv install --list-all.
3. If the version you need is missing, try upgrading ruby-build:

git -C /home/apache/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build pull

1. RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--disable-dtrace" rbenv install version.number
2. test the proper version is in place with ruby -v

If bundler give you a problem, manually install gem install bundler:1.17.3 --user-install

To make sure that there are no old versions of ruby installed wipe

• /srv/apps/.gem
• /srv/apps/.bundle
• /srv/apps/.cache
• /srv/apps/scholar_capistrano/shared/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.*