Installing Ruby

There are multiple ways to install ruby on your machine.

Official recommendation is to use your OS’s package manager like apt, pacman or brew

If you are using a version manager, rvm (Ruby Version Manager) seems to be popular. But in the past, I started using asdf, so I’ve decided to stick with it. It is also mentioned (first in the list) on the official Installing Ruby page 😄

asdf plugin add ruby https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-ruby.git
asdf list all ruby
asdf install ruby latest

At the time of this writing 3.1.0 is the latest

It took little over 13 minutes. 😱 I think it could be because this was the first time I installed any Ruby version.

I would like to believe that subsequent installation will be faster. 🤞

Before I could use irb (which is what everyone suggest we do, when learning Ruby. It is REPL for ruby) I had to asdf global ruby 3.1.0 ¹

Without it, I kept getting the following error:

$ irb
No version is set for command irb
Consider adding one of the following versions in your config file at /Users/mandar/.tool-versions
ruby 3.1.0

Once done, irb worked. We are off to the races 😄