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authorGravatar Tim Emiola <temiola@google.com>2015-04-07 12:59:38 -0700
committerGravatar Tim Emiola <temiola@google.com>2015-04-14 08:58:02 -0700
commitdb9eb05eeaafa8e661f7a48948baaa0d195d3055 (patch)
treefad04d7d324ec09b9e2f985465512347a6352317 /src/ruby
parent884d29725be2594dfbb798f8474a9409f1e88af7 (diff)
Update installation instructions to mention debian binary install
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-rw-r--r--src/ruby/README.md24
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/src/ruby/README.md b/src/ruby/README.md
index 9c0eef49b0..286ae662cc 100644
--- a/src/ruby/README.md
+++ b/src/ruby/README.md
@@ -11,16 +11,19 @@ Alpha : Ready for early adopters
INSTALLATION PREREQUISITES
--------------------------
-This requires Ruby 2.1, as the RPC API surface uses keyword args.
+This requires Ruby 2.x, as the RPC API surface uses keyword args.
QUICK - INSTALL
---------------
-- Clone this repository.
-- Follow the instructions in [INSTALL](../../INSTALL) to install the gRPC C core.
-- If you don't have Ruby 2.1 installed, switch to the more detailed instructions below
-- Use bundler to install
+On debian linux systems, install from our released deb package.
+Otherwise, install from source, as described below.
+
+$ wget https://github.com/grpc/grpc/releases/download/release-0_6_0/libgrpc_0.6.0_amd64.deb
+$ wget https://github.com/grpc/grpc/releases/download/release-0_6_0/libgrpc-dev_0.6.0_amd64.deb
+$ sudo dpkg -i libgrpc_0.6.0_amd64.deb libgrpc-dev_0.6.0_amd64.deb
+
```sh
$ # from this directory
$ gem install bundler && bundle install
@@ -29,14 +32,9 @@ $ gem install bundler && bundle install
Installing from source
----------------------
-- Build the gRPC C core
-E.g, from the root of the gRPC [git repo](https://github.com/google/grpc)
-```sh
-$ cd ../..
-$ make && sudo make install
-```
-
-- Install Ruby 2.1. Consider doing this with [RVM](http://rvm.io), it's a nice way of controlling
+- Clone this repository
+- Follow the instructions in [INSTALL](../../INSTALL) to install the gRPC C core.
+- Install Ruby 2.x. Consider doing this with [RVM](http://rvm.io), it's a nice way of controlling
the exact ruby version that's used.
```sh
$ command curl -sSL https://rvm.io/mpapis.asc | gpg --import -