How to install omnibus-ruby on NetBSD

Omnibus-ruby is a tool developed by Chef for building packages of Ruby applications. Here's how you can install it on NetBSD.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have the following:

• NetBSD installed
• A user with root privileges
• Internet connectivity

Step 1: Install dependencies

The first step in installing omnibus-ruby is to install the dependencies required to build and run it. Open a terminal and enter the following command to install the necessary packages:

pkgin update && pkgin install gcc openssl libyaml libffi pkg-config readline

Step 2: Download omnibus-ruby

Next, you need to download the omnibus-ruby source code from GitHub. You can do this by running the following command in your terminal:

git clone https://github.com/chef/omnibus.git

Step 3: Build and install omnibus-ruby

After downloading the source code, you need to build omnibus-ruby using the following commands:

cd omnibus
bundle install --path vendor/bundle
bundle exec omnibus build omnibus-ruby

This will build the omnibus-ruby package and save it to the pkg directory of the omnibus-ruby source code.

To install the package, run the following command:

pkg_add pkg/omnibus-ruby-VERSION.tgz

Replace VERSION with the version number of the package you just built.

Step 4: Verify the installation

Finally, you can verify that omnibus-ruby has been installed correctly by running the following command:

omnibus-ruby -v

This should print the version of Ruby that has been installed by omnibus-ruby.

Conclusion

That's it! You've successfully installed omnibus-ruby on NetBSD. You can now use it to build Ruby applications and packages on your NetBSD system.