Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux
2023-03-16
For some on-going projects I need to switch to different versions of ruby
. Although there exist many step-by-step instructions on installing and configuring rvm
for most Linux distros, there aren’t many focused on Alpine “daily drivers”.
So this post is more or less a helpful document for my future self. If it happens to help others then that’s an added bonus!
Simple Setup
Make sure you have the basic packages first:
apk update
apk add curl gcc gnupg gpg dirmngr procps musl-dev linux-headers zlib zlib-dev openssl openssl-dev libssl1.1
Next download the latest stable
version of rvm
from Github, unpack it, place it in the proper user directory (~/.rvm) and install any required libs:
curl -sSL https://github.com/rvm/rvm/tarball/stable -o rvm-stable.tar.gz
echo 'export rvm_prefix="$HOME"' > ~/.rvmrc
echo 'export rvm_path="$HOME/.rvm"' >> ~/.rvmrc
mkdir rvm && cd rvm
tar --strip-components=1 -xzf ../rvm-stable.tar.gz
./install --auto-dotfiles --autolibs=0
Now we can remove everything and properly link to rvm
:
cd ../ && rm -rf rvm-stable stable.tar.gz rvm
source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
Now you can freely install any version of Ruby that you desire!
rvm install ruby-X.X.X