rake on FreeBSD Latest

Rake is a build automation tool for Ruby that is commonly used for managing complex build tasks and dependencies in Ruby applications. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of installing Rake from https://github.com/ruby/rake on FreeBSD Latest.

Prerequisites

Before we proceed, you must make sure that you have the following prerequisites:

A FreeBSD Latest server instance
A user with sudo privileges

Step 1 - Install the Prerequisites

To install Rake, we need to install the prerequisites first. Open the terminal and run the following command to install the prerequisites:

sudo pkg install ruby-devel rubygems

This command installs the Ruby Development package and RubyGems package needed to install Rake.

Step 2 - Install Rake

Run the following command to install Rake from https://github.com/ruby/rake:

sudo gem install rake

This command will download and install the latest version of Rake from the GitHub repository.

Step 3 - Verify the Installation

To verify if Rake has been installed successfully, run the following command:

rake --version

This command should return the version number of Rake installed on your system.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Rake from https://github.com/ruby/rake on FreeBSD Latest. You can now use Rake to automate your build process for your Ruby applications.