This is the command ruby-standalone that can be run in the OnWorks free hosting provider using one of our multiple free online workstations such as Ubuntu Online, Fedora Online, Windows online emulator or MAC OS online emulator
PROGRAM:
NAME
ruby-standlone - use (only) the Ruby interpreter from Debian
USAGE
ruby-standalone [PROGRAM] [ARGS]
DESCRIPTION
ruby-standlone allows one to use the Ruby interpreter provided by Debian (and thus get
security support for stable releases), without having to also use Ruby libraries and
applications from Debian.
When called with no arguments, ruby-standalone will spawn a new shell, where all of the
standard Ruby programs (ruby, erb, gem, irb, rdoc, ri, testrb) will never use code from
Debian-provided packages.
Otherwise, PROGRAM will be called with ARGS as arguments, in that same context.
Caveat: if PROGRAM is not installed as a Rubygem and is installed by a Debian package, the
Debian package version will be used.
USE CASES
ruby-standalone makes it possible to:
· install vagrant from the Debian repository and at the sime time develop a Ruby web
application that needs gem versions different than the ones that were pulled in from the
Debian repository when vagrant was installed.
· install chef from the Debian repository on a node that will host an application that
needs different gem versions than the ones chef needs.
· on the same server, host redmine installed from the Debian repository and in-house Rails
application that needs a different version of Rails than the one Debian provides.
Use ruby-standalone online using onworks.net services
