CODEWITHSUNDEEP
rubyshoes
user31411
user31411

Reputation: 1

How to install/use Ruby Shoes (without Hackety Hack)?

SOLUTION: You have the same problem, you have to compile Shoes (https://github.com/shoes/shoes/wiki/Building-Shoes-on-Linux)

if rake doesn't work, try to install ruby 1.9.2 through rvm.

I recently started to learn Ruby, and i came across this library.

I tried to install it using the .run file provided by the official site, but it seems like it's broken. If i run it, it tells me:

./shoes-3.1.0.run: 1: eval: ./shoes: not found

And yes, after extracting the file, i found a folder which didnt contain it. The only runnable thing i find is HacketyHack, which worked, but I prefer to use my own editor.

Since I have just started to learn Ruby, I'm not comfortable with playing with the .rb files to get it working outside of HH. I also tried to install it via apt-get, but after running 'shoes', all i get is:

no such file to load -- rubygems

Compiling from source code didn't work for me. Is there anything else I can try, or am I doing something terribly wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 866

Answers (1)

Shelvacu
Shelvacu

Reputation: 4380

The problem seems to be your ruby version. ruby in the apt repositories is version 1.8.7 which is quite old. Try apt-get install ruby1.9.1

If that doesn't work, I would recommend using rvm. Install, then simply rvm install ruby-2.0.0 which is the latest version, then rvm use 2.0.0. If shoes doesn't work under any of these versions, it's probably a bug in shoes.

Upvotes: 2

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