Does rubygems work on Ubuntu?

Question

This blog post of December 2008 says that rubygems is broken on Debian-based systems.

Does rubygems work cleanly on Ubuntu (for both 1.8 and 1.9)?

Answer 1

I have it up and running on my ubuntu 9.04. So yes, it is working. I do not clearly remember but I thought I did it by apt-get, the easy way :).

Answer 2

I'm not sure about installing with apt-get, but I've never had any problems installing from source. Slicehost has a good article on getting set up.

Answer 3

Yes. At least 1.8 does--I don't use Ubuntu enough to have any reason to install 1.9.

It might take a little bit of tweaking (Google any errors you find), but I've gotten it working fine, from the repositories, on 8.04 (Hardy Heron).