Installing Rake from GitHub on NixOS Latest

  1. Open your terminal on NixOS Latest.

  2. Update your system:

sudo nixos-rebuild switch
  1. Install the necessary dependencies. You need to have Ruby installed because Rake is a Ruby gem, so run the following command:
sudo nix-env -i ruby
  1. Clone the Rake repository from GitHub:
git clone https://github.com/ruby/rake.git
  1. Change into the directory of the cloned repository:
cd rake
  1. Check out the latest version available:
git checkout latest
  1. Build and install Rake:
gem build rake.gemspec
sudo gem install rake-X.X.X.gem

Replace X.X.X with the actual version number that is displayed when you run the ls command.

  1. Verify that the installation was successful by running the following command:
rake --version

This should output the installed version of Rake.

Congratulations! You successfully installed Rake from GitHub on NixOS Latest.