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Install a remote snapshot tarball

Uwe Kubosch edited this page Mar 30, 2016 · 9 revisions

We recommend using the stable releases of the different Rubies, but sometimes you may want to install a current snapshot. One frequent use of this is when you report issues to the Ruby implementations and are asked to verify if the issue is fixed or still present in a recent build.

To install a remote snapshot use the -u command line option, and add the correct implementation name and version. For example

$ ruby-install -u http://ci.jruby.org/snapshots/master/jruby-bin-9.1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz jruby 9.1.0.0-SNAPSHOT

will install the latest snapshot of JRuby 9K.

Most Ruby implementations have recent snapshots. Please update the list below:

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