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I've found the easiest way to have a nice, consistent, working Ruby installation is to install from source. Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora are the easiest. There are a bunch of one-liners to install all the dependencies on various distros floating around. The Ruby website has instructions but the gist of it is, run ./configure, then make, then make install. Actually pretty easy. Gem is great for managing libraries, certainly better than any Python solution for that ecosystem.