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Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features.

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Ruby won't update

Help! Trying to install Cocoapods on my mac, kept getting an error, thought it might be something to do with having a really old version of Ruby. Then this happened: % ruby -v ruby 2.6.10p210 (2022-04-...
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I got Psych error while installing redmine

I am trying to install redmine (which is a ruby app ) in my centos 7 system. I worked fine. But when I clone the server that is installing my centos to another machine, redmine on the clone machine ...
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Unable to install pg gem on CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810

ruby --version ruby 3.1.2p20 (2022-04-12 revision 4491bb740a) [x86_64-linux] gem --version 3.3.7 PostgreSQL 9.2.24 on x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44),...
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SFTP: rename/remove commands fail intermittently

I have a background job written in Ruby that connects to several SFTP servers, download some files and finally, move the downloaded files to another folder in the sftp server. The issue is that the ...
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Convert puppet manifest config to hiera

I installed corosync-pacemaker cluster via puppet. Now I would to like keep my data into hiera file. How should I convert cs_primitive section into yaml file? cs_primitive { 'nfsshare_fs': ...
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psql not working in Slackware

I downloaded the slack builds for pd, pd-sql and postgres and when I Run psql in the terminal I receive: bash-5.1# psql psql: error: connection to server on socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432" ...
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Ruby and sqlite3 gem not working with bundle. SLackware

I need to run a ruby project with gems and specs. When I type bundle install I received: bash-5.1# bundle install Don't run Bundler as root. Bundler can ask for sudo if it is needed, and installing ...
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Postgresql issue on Manjaro 21.2.1

It was working just fine a couple of months ago, but now it just returns the following, any ideas why libldap-2.4.so.2 could not be found all of the sudden? OS: Manjaro 21.2.1 ~ postgres --version ...
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How to install Jekyll with rbenv on a Debian-based distro?

What I have tried: Installing ruby with: rbenv install 2.4.1 Then installing Jekyll with gem: gem install bundler jekyll Error messages: user@user:~/git$ rbenv global 2.4.1 user@user:~/git$ gem ...
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Cannot start sensu-service due to libc6 error

I am trying to install sensu-client on Ubuntu 16.04 node and after installation I am unable to start the service. Below is the error I am getting while trying to start the service. sensu-service[4885]...
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how to install specific version of Ruby in Arch-Based Linux

I was trying to install specific version Ruby in Manjaro. I had tried some query. sudo pacman -Sy ruby:2.6.6 sudo pacman -Sy ruby-2.6.6 Both of them returning target not found. I was reading the ...
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Ruby installation in Manjaro (Arch-Based Linux)

I was reading the documentation. In Debian based Linux, I have to install build-essential, libssl-dev. But, what about Arch-Based Linux? I had tried sudo pacman -Syy build-essential libssl-dev But, ...
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where did yum install my ruby executable?

I'm trying to install a modern Ruby on Amazon Linux which I think is RHEL based. I ran sudo yum install rh-ruby26 which is a legit package, and it installed some files. However when I try and run ruby,...
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how to run a Ruby on rails server

Would anyone have a tip for how to run a ruby on rails server? There is an API that I would like to explore. This is the git repo. Thanks for any tips, I just dont have any experience for what would ...
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Permissions problem when using ruby based snap 'mdl'

Because I don't understand Ruby, but want to use the ruby based program mdl (markdownlint), I have installed it using snap. While I can run the program, if I try and set up a customizations in a ~/....
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Ruby script to create a temporary file for use with greenletters

I'm using expect to test autocompletions in zsh (actually using the Ruby greenletters gem, with uses Ruby's PTY under the covers, to call expect). After digging through the documentation and old ...
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Metasploit error on Alpine

When I trying to run ./msfconsole I got this error: Traceback (most recent call last): 9: from ./msfconsole:48:in `<main>' 8: from ./msfconsole:48:in `require' 7: from /...
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Vagrant: errors about ignoring Rubygems as their extensions are not built after install on Fedora 31

After installing the vagrant packages on Fedora 31 and subsequently running the vagrant command, there are these errors regarding ignored Rubygems: Ignoring ffi-1.10.0 because its extensions are not ...
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How do I insert my bash variable into my ruby command?

I'm using bash shell. I have defined the following variable ... localhost:tmp davea$ echo $json {"id": "abc", "name": "dave"} I would like to insert the value of this var into a ruby command, so I ...
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Help need to setup a Ruby on Rails App stack using docker

I have setup a Rails app on a docker container and a apache web server on another container. I need the apache web server to access the rails app for every request made. The issue is I have to ...
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Difference between interactive bash and commands executed via ssh

I have a setup on a server of ruby using a tool called rvm (Ruby Version Manager. It works fine. rvm adds some stuff to the path so that it can control what version of Ruby I get when I just type ruby....
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Replace all backslash escape sequence-producable characters with their escaped escape sequences

EDIT: I'm very sorry, that I initially didn't make my requirements clear. I don't actually have access to the string written in a backslash-escaped way and have amended the example to make that ...
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Do subprocesses keep pipes open?

I am trying to understand the behaviour of programs that launch subprocesses, when run in a pipeline. This bash program, fork.sh, prints and returns immediately: (sleep 1) & echo 'here' But ...
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Use ERB in tmuxinator with a bash array environment variable?

I want to use tmuxinator to open panes (and run commands with an argument in each) by looping through a bash array. Is that possible? How would I do that?
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Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension

I have the following Dockerfile: FROM debian:stretch-backports RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ build-essential \ ruby ruby-dev \ ...
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How to preserve filename and folder structure when using foremost recovery program?

I am desperately needing to run the linux recovery software foremost and preserve filenames and folder structure. As you might know the program renames the recovered files with a numerical value and ...
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Choose an option from select in bash

I am trying to run gem uninstall bundler through a bash script. The issue occurs when I have multiple bundler versions installed. It prompts the number of versions, and last option is to uninstall all ...
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Ubuntu could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)

I'm trying to create a new user form my rails application. I already ran psql -p 5432 -h localhsot -U postgres and created a new user. Then I added the user with sudo adduser user_name and afterwards ...
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How does 'Open with' a custom executable in Linux work?

I have a file called foo.txt. I want to associate my own program with the mime-type .txt so that my program opens a terminal and shows the contents of foo.txt as standard output. I would prefer Ruby, ...
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Ruby on Rails Routing Error [closed]

I am running ruby on rails on an Ubuntu Droplet and I am encountering the following error when I navigate to my domain name: Routing Error uninitialized constant HomeController Rails.root: /home/...
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With gnu find, what is the difference between -print0 and -printf "%p\0"

In a terminal I can run... find . -type f -print0 ./testdir/testfile2.txt./testdir/testfile.txt And then... find . -type f -printf "%p\0" ./testdir/testfile2.txt./testdir/testfile.txt They both ...
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Remove multiple strings from file on command line, high performance [closed]

Is there an elegant, high-performance one-liner way to remove multiple complete strings from an input? I process large text files, e.g., 1 million lines in inputfile, and 100k matching strings in ...
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Can't install ruby on rails MacOSX

While trying to install ruby on rails with sudo gem install rails I get the following error Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing rails: ERROR: Failed ...
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Ruby on NixOS -- FFI Gem installation failing when building native extensions

I am a Rubyist of many years. I cannot determine what's missing to prevent FFI from installing. Here is the error from the make.out file (gotta love that name): make[3]: *** [Makefile:1048: ...
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NixOS Ruby Development - Installing all needed devkit libraries and headers to build native extensions

I'm a Ruby developer thoroughly enjoying NixOS. I just need to know how to set up dependencies to build native dependencies on gems like FFI and Nokogiri. Currently I am getting this error: The ...
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Can't access gems after installing ruby and gems with ansible

I'm working on an Ansible script to install my standard working environment (Ruby on Rails). Ansible runs under sudo, and the gems that have been installed are only accessable under sudo too. If I ...
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emerge install package with flag which not in ruby_targets

$ emerge --info | grep ruby ..... RUBY_TARGETS="ruby23" ...... And I run emerge with --newuse and --deep, it will ask me to add use flag with ruby22. These packages are not in @system. These ...
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sh script to run multiple files in multiple languages

Is it possible to have an sh script that would run a python file, run a command ruby file and run a ruby sonicPI file? What would this look like? Thank you! Adi
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Fastest way to determine if directory contents have changed since last time

I have a script that checks a directory using mdls* (to sort by added time) and them performs some operations. However, mdls is a bit slow so I’d like to run it only when absolutely necessary (i.e. ...
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where are codiad projects stored locally?

In Firefox I installed codiad as: where is ruby_hello actually located? (When it asked for the absolute path, I wasn't able to put in /home/thufir/... because of permission, so just typed in "...
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Error installing Ruby on Rails (Arch Linux)

I'm currently having an issue when trying to install Ruby on Rails on my Arch Linux ARM system. But it's also not just rails that won't install, it's anything I try to install using gem. Here is some ...
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Gem install producing "OpenSSL" error

For at least a week now i have been trying to install Bettercap on my Raspberry PI using gem but whenever i type in: sudo gem install bettercap i receive an error message that says ERROR: While ...
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How to start gem ffaker in Debian?

I install ffaker but cannot find it in my PATH masi@masi:~$ sudo gem install ffaker Fetching: ffaker-2.6.0.gem (100%) Successfully installed ffaker-2.6.0 Parsing documentation for ffaker-2.6.0 ...
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Incompatible character encoding in Jenkins can't resolve

I am attempting to run a Cucumber (Ruby) Test Suite from Jenkins that tests whether or not 2-4 byte UTF-8 characters are valid names for groups. I have tried a number of solutions and have been ...
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unable to access my rails using Public IP of my Ubuntu server in a browser

I have a Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-63-generic x86_64) server and my public IP is something like 183.xx.xxx.xx (curl -4 icanhazip.com).I have started my rails app using the command: rails s -...
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How can I use ruby gem commands like bundler when ruby is installed by nix package manager?

I'm new to nix package manager. After installing nix into Ubuntu 16.04 LTS(Japanese translated version), I installed ruby with nix-env command. Then I did gem install bundler. That seemed to work ...
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Use RVM to point to custom Ruby path

I have my ruby-2.3.1 installed in /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.1/bin/ruby, but by some problems with dependencies KDE downloads ruby-2.1 to /usr/bin/ruby and now my system uses that version. I've install RVM ...
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How to install KDE without Ruby?

For a project I'm using Ruby 2.3.1, I'm using a CentOS7 OS with ruby 2.3.1 installed. When I run yum install kde-workspace it installs/downgrades to ruby 2.0.0.648-29.el7 which makes the application ...
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How to iterate over files using awk, bash, or ruby?

I have three markdown files on my machine: $ ls | grep md bar.md baz.md foo.md Each file has the given content: $ cat *md i am bar i am baz i am foo As an example, I'd like "loop over all the ...
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ulimit value not changing for a process

We have a ruby application that started throwing lot of "unable to create new socket: Too many open files" errors recently I have updated "etc/security/limits.conf" as below root soft nofile ...
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