Ruby integrated into OpenSolaris

As of Nevada build 78, Ruby 1.86 and friends (irb, rdoc, ri,and gem) are first-class citizens of Solaris Nevada, thanks to the PSARC/2007/600 project team. No more needing to go through a lot of this, to get a Solaris Ruby (and Rails) environment up and running. Together with JRuby, NetBeans, and DTrace support for Ruby, the Solaris Ruby infrastructure just got even better.

Although Rails seems to get more than its fair share of the Ruby publicity pie, Ruby itself has all sorts of applications including System Administration, Numerical Analysis, and Desktop programming


The $PATH modification below is a workaround so that your gems can be found after they are installed. Hopefully this step will no longer be needed in a future release.

-bash-3.2$ uname -a

SunOS sopchoppy 5.11 snv_78 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100

-bash-3.2$ ruby -v

ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-23 patchlevel 110) [sparc-solaris2.11]

-bash-3.2$ PATH=$PATH:/usr/ruby/1.8/bin

Using gem to install rake:

# gem install rake

Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org

Successfully installed rake-0.7.3

Installing ri documentation for rake-0.7.3...

Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.7.3...

Installing rails is one command:

# gem install rails --include-dependencies

Successfully installed rails-1.2.6

Successfully installed activesupport-1.4.4

Successfully installed activerecord-1.15.6

Successfully installed actionpack-1.13.6

Successfully installed actionmailer-1.3.6

Successfully installed actionwebservice-1.2.6

Installing ri documentation for activesupport-1.4.4...

Installing ri documentation for activerecord-1.15.6...

Installing ri documentation for actionpack-1.13.6...

Installing ri documentation for actionmailer-1.3.6...

Installing ri documentation for actionwebservice-1.2.6...

Installing RDoc documentation for activesupport-1.4.4...

Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-1.15.6...

Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-1.13.6...

Installing RDoc documentation for actionwebservice-1.2.6...

Now, create a rails app:

-bash-3.2$ rails hello-world

      create

      create  app/controllers

      create  app/helpers

      create  app/models

      create  app/views/layouts

      create  config/environments

      create  components

      create  db

      create  doc

      .

      .

      .

Posted at 12:16PM Nov 29, 2007 by Peter Schow in Sun  |  Comments[2]