How To Install ruby-timecop on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-timecop
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ruby-timecop
ruby-timecop is:
Timecop makes it easy to travel through or freeze time for creating a predictable and ultimately testable scenario.
It is a wrapper class for manipulating the extensions to the Time, Date, and DateTime objects. It avoids overloading of functions with optional arguments while writing test cases. It is possible to nest multiple calls to Timecop.travel and Timecop.freeze, with each block maintaining concept of “now”. Having no dependencies, it works with regular Ruby projects and Ruby on Rails projects. Ruby-Versions: all
There are three methods to install ruby-timecop
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ruby-timecop Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-timecop
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-timecop
Install ruby-timecop Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-timecop
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-timecop
Install ruby-timecop Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-timecop
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-timecop
How To Uninstall ruby-timecop on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ruby-timecop
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-timecop
Uninstall ruby-timecop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-timecop
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-timecop
Remove ruby-timecop Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-timecop
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-timecop
Remove ruby-timecop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-timecop
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-timecop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-timecop
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.