its so fucking cool that the tutorial im following for installing ruby doesn't work with modern versions of ubuntu that is so sick
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@wallhackio What does the Clodsire need Ruby for? Also, what's the error message. Perhaps, the Vaporeon can try to help...
@vaporeon_ I fixed it
I am learning ruby on rails for job hunt purposes
@vaporeon_ I need to manually compile an older version of OpenSSL because Ruby doesn't like the newer versions. I also had to manually install something called libyaml, and install a couple packages (libffi-dev, build-essential, checkinstall, zlib1g-dev)
@wallhackio @vaporeon_ you’ll never guess what libyaml is
@aescling @wallhackio @vaporeon_ not a stable release, not updated in five years, not conforming to the current spec, and a major load‐bearing component of the Ruby ecosystem?
@freya @aescling @wallhackio @vaporeon_ libyaml is an old, probably fine but also amateur implementation of YAML 1.1 (the current version of YAML is 1.2.2)
YAML 1.1 is the reason why YAML has such a bad reputation and YAML 1.2 fixed a lot of the issues and is much better, but unfortunately the Ruby community (and especially the Rails community) has probably built too much infrastructure around YAML 1.1’s weird and quirky behaviour to ever make the switch
@Lady @aescling @wallhackio @vaporeon_ huh! I've only just started using yaml, I generally avoid languages that use indentation as syntax but I can make it work if I'm really careful
@Lady @aescling @wallhackio @vaporeon_ oh for fuck sake really? also what, how the fuck is..... I have a Ruby 4.0.0 built against OpenSSH 3.5.5 LTS and it works fine?