How To Install ruby on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby on CentOS 7. ruby is An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby on CentOS 7.

What is ruby

Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.

We can use yum or dnf to install ruby on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ruby.

Install ruby on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install ruby using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ruby

Install ruby on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install ruby using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ruby

How To Uninstall ruby on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the ruby package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ruby

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.