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What operating systems support Ruby?

April 26, 2017Operating Systems ruby support

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What operating systems support Ruby?

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Ruby is developed under Linux, and is written in fairly straightforward C. It runs under UNIX, DOS, Windows 95/98/NT/2000, Mac OSX, BeOS, Amiga, Acorn Risc OS, and OS/2. H Morita notes: There’s a MacOS (not X) port of Ruby, by Hisakuni FUJIMOTO at http://www.imasy.or.jp/~hisa/ruby/macruby.html. However it’s based on Ruby 1.1b7, and hasn’t been updated since December 1999. It’s highly experimental. It may crash and sometimes freeze the OS, even with the sample scripts included in the Ruby distribution. (Sounds like fun ;-). > Rob tells us that there’s Ruby 1.6.4 for OS/2 at http://www.aminet.org/systems/os2/dev/misc/. Chris Gehlker tells us there’s a precompiled binary of Ruby for Max OS X 10.* at http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_apps_utilities/rubyprogramminglanguage.html.