How to install Ruby 2 on Ubuntu without RVM

Question

I want to install ruby 2.0 using

sudo apt-get install ruby2.0

But there isn\'t available package for ruby2.0

I wan

Answer 1

Since this question was answered I have found a new alternative here:

https://www.brightbox.com/docs/ruby/ubuntu/

In short:

# For ubuntu >= 14.04 install software-properties-common
# instead of python-software-properties
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brightbox/ruby-ng
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get -y install ruby2.2 ruby-switch
sudo ruby-switch --set ruby2.2

I must say that according to my tests this is faster than the alternatives shown here, because the compiling step is skipped.