I rebuild few ruby-1.8..6 rpms from fedora under Centos 5.1. My yum repo is avilable under:
http://repo.premiumhelp.eu/ruby/

for use with yum create ruby.repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/:

[ruby]
name=ruby
baseurl=http://repo.premiumhelp.eu/ruby/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=0

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
usage:
#yum --enablerepo=ruby list *RUBY*


To hosting my web pages i use nginx(from repo) http server:

Package rubygems allow install aditional ruby module: rails, RMagick ....
gem install rails


all packages:

ImageMagick-6.3.5.9-1.i686.rpm 22-Dec-2007 00:24 6447396
ImageMagick-c++-6.3.5.9-1.i686.rpm 22-Dec-2007 00:24 715450
ImageMagick-c++-devel-6.3.5.9-1.i686.rpm 22-Dec-2007 00:24 62619
ImageMagick-devel-6.3.5.9-1.i686.rpm 22-Dec-2007 00:24 80911
ImageMagick-perl-6.3.5.9-1.i686.rpm 22-Dec-2007 00:24 240131
nginx-0.5.33-1.i686.rpm 22-Dec-2007 09:22 348461
ruby-1.8.6.111-1.i686.rpm 21-Dec-2007 21:30 538085
ruby-devel-1.8.6.111-1.i686.rpm 21-Dec-2007 21:31 546050
ruby-docs-1.8.6.111-1.i686.rpm 21-Dec-2007 21:31 1549995
ruby-irb-1.8.6.111-1.i686.rpm 21-Dec-2007 21:31 71197
ruby-libs-1.8.6.111-1.i686.rpm 21-Dec-2007 21:30 2748359
ruby-mode-1.8.6.111-1.i686.rpm 21-Dec-2007 21:31 57939
ruby-mysql-2.7.4-1.i686.rpm 23-Dec-2007 17:43 72855
ruby-postgres-0.7.1-6.i686.rpm 23-Dec-2007 17:57 51864
ruby-rdoc-1.8.6.111-1.i686.rpm 21-Dec-2007 21:31 140187
ruby-ri-1.8.6.111-1.i686.rpm 21-Dec-2007 21:31 1845897
ruby-tcltk-1.8.6.111-1.i686.rpm 21-Dec-2007 21:31 1784159
rubygems-0.9.4-2.noarch.rpm 22-Dec-2007 23:48 525269

Jacek
wolk(at)jablko.one.pl

In case you're new to yum as I was, the repository is only added temporaraly when the switch...

-enablerepo=ruby

...is included in the command line. You'll need to combine the encluderepo switch with the install command as follows.

yum --enablerepo=ruby install ruby
yum --enablerepo=ruby install rubygems

Thank you for doing this. I really appreciate your contributions to the community.

I also appreciate your work.

Quote:
Or if you're already on 1.8.5 you can do an upgrade like:

yum --enablerepo=ruby upgrade

Thanks to all for these posts. They helped me a lot.

Chris

Quote:

you better include the package name you want to upgrade, e.g.:

yum --enablerepo=ruby upgrade ruby

or you will upgrade every package on your system, which is probably
not what you want (at that moment).

The ruby in that repo hasn't been touched since 2007.

You can build a much better one yourself:

in Fedora 13

yumdownloader --source ruby

provides ruby-1.8.6.399-5.fc13.src.rpm

in CentOS 5.5 to repackage the Fedora SRPM as a RHEL SRPM

mkdir -p /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
rpm -Uhv --nomd5 ruby-1.8.6.399-5.fc13.src.rpm
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
rpmbuild -bs --nodeps ruby.spec

provides ruby-1.8.6.399-5.src.rpm

Once sufficient RPM dependencies have been satisfied

yum install rpm-build gcc autoconf readline-devel ncurses-devel gdbm-devel tcl-devel tk-devel libX11-devel openssl-devel db4-devel byacc emacs-common

then "rpmbuild -ba ruby.spec" produces

ruby-1.8.6.399-5.x86_64.rpm
ruby-devel-1.8.6.399-5.x86_64.rpm
ruby-docs-1.8.6.399-5.x86_64.rpm
ruby-irb-1.8.6.399-5.x86_64.rpm
ruby-libs-1.8.6.399-5.x86_64.rpm
ruby-mode-1.8.6.399-5.x86_64.rpm
ruby-rdoc-1.8.6.399-5.x86_64.rpm
ruby-ri-1.8.6.399-5.x86_64.rpm
ruby-static-1.8.6.399-5.x86_64.rpm
ruby-tcltk-1.8.6.399-5.x86_64.rpm

To anyone who is reading and will be following this post, please read the guide on rebuilding srpm and please take necessary precautions such as rebuilding srpms as non-root.