Uninstall Ruby on Rails cpanel server

Question

I'm sitting here with a cPanel server, and I want to uninstall ruby, and ruby on rails.

I can see there is /scripts/installruby, but not a remove.

Does anyone know how I can uninstall ruby and rails from my server? So I can free up the space given I don't use it anyway?

Please note that I do have full root access to the server!

Answer 1

It depends on what you run. If Ruby was installed through a packet manager like apt you can simply use that to uninstall it.

apt-get remove ruby

If the ruby install was a build from source you obviously either want to find the sources and do a make uninstall or you simply delete the folders where ruby is at (which ruby gives you the paths)

Ruby on Rails is only a gem inside ruby - so deleting the ruby folder with the gem folder in it will also remove rails. Make sure to clean up your path of any references to the ruby/bin and gem/bin folders and you should be good.

Then you have to figure out what application server was running ruby on your box. And uninstall those seperatly (passenger, unicorn, mongrel etc)..