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Description
Ruby is a language that is more common in web development than in scientific computing, but it is included as part of a Cortex VM in case there is a program or script written in Ruby that you want to run. Some examples of scientific tools written in Ruby include the gems (packages) included as part of SciRuby and BioRuby. Also included alongside Ruby is the RVM virtual environment manager, which allows you to use multiple versions of Ruby on the same host.
Using RVM
Before you or anyone on your server can use RVM, you (or another person) must be added to the rvm group using the following command (where username is substituted with a valid UNI or username):
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(base) -bash-4.4$ sudo usermod -aG rvm username |
Afterwards, you (or another user on your system) may need to log out and back in again for the change to take effect. You can then get a list of all versions of Ruby that can be installed with the following command:
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(base) -bash-4.4$ rvm list known |
To install a version of Ruby you can use a command like the following:
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(base) -bash-4.4$ rvm install ruby-2.7 |
And to use a particular version of Ruby:
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(base) -bash-4.4$ rvm use ruby-2.7
Using /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.0
(base) -bash-4.4$ ruby -v
ruby 2.7.0p0 (2019-12-25 revision 647ee6f091) [x86_64-linux] |
More information on how to use RVM can be found here.