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		diego on Jan 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Get Ruby and Rails running on Ubuntu with one comm... That's what rvm is for. Leave the system Ruby alone and install your own, even multiple versions. I have ruby 1.8.7 with rails 2.3.5 and 1.9.2 with 3.0.3, easily switch between them for testing. http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/

joshfng on Jan 22, 2011 [–]

I have updated the script to ask you if you want to build Ruby from source or install RVM (Wayne from RVM pointed me in the right direction)

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