Question

I am trying to install vim with the ruby interpreter. Following this stackoverflow question and documentation, I completed the following steps.

On a Linux 64-bit OS:

hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim
cd vim
./configure --enable-rubyinterp=yes
make
sudo make install

However, I still receive:

vim --version | grep ruby
-python3 +quickfix +reltime -rightleft -ruby +scrollbind +signs +smartindent 

I do have a system ruby installed (rvm not yet installed):

ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [x86_64-linux]

My Google foo and research has hit a wall, any suggestions about how I figure out what I am doing incorrectly?

Answer 1

You just need to install ruby header files first. Like this:

sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
./configure --enable-rubyinterp