Are you on Ubuntu? Did you try the instructions on the install page? If so, what part of it didn't work?
http://buildr.apache.org/installing.html#linux Your instructions are practically equivalent, except that we recommend installing RubyGems from source instead of using the Ubuntu package. <http://buildr.apache.org/installing.html#linux>alex 2011/1/13 Marc-André Laverdière <[email protected]> > Hello everyone, > > I had to struggle a bit to put Buildr on my machine, so I thought I > should share how I did it. > > 1. Do the following commands (make sure JAVA_HOME is set first) > sudo apt-get install ruby-full ruby1.8-dev rake libopenssl-ruby > build-essential rubygems1.8 > > sudo env JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME gem install buildr > > 2. > It is possible that the executable buildr doesn't exist. So you can add > the following file as /usr/bin/buildr: > > #! /bin/bash > /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/buildr-1.4.4/_buildr $@ > > 3. Make sure buildr is runnable if you did #2 > sudo chmod a+x /usr/bin/buildr > > Can the install page be updated accordingly? > > Regards, > > Marc-André LAVERDIÈRE > "Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and > complete, not lacking anything." -James 1:4 > http://asimplediscipleslife.blogspot.com/ > mlaverd.theunixplace.com >
