How to install omnibus-ruby on Debian Latest

Omnibus-ruby is a tool that allows you to create a omnibus installer package from a Ruby project. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing omnibus-ruby on your Debian latest machine.

Prerequisites

Before you proceed, make sure that:

Steps

  1. Install Omnibus dependencies:

    sudo apt-get install -y ruby ruby-dev build-essential git libffi-dev libssl-dev
    
  2. Clone the Omnibus repository:

    git clone git://github.com/chef/omnibus.git
    
  3. Change into the Omnibus directory:

    cd omnibus
    
  4. Install the Omnibus gem:

    sudo gem install bundler
    bundle install
    
  5. Verify the installation:

    bundle exec omnibus help
    

If the Omnibus help command returns a list of commands, then the installation was successful.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Omnibus-ruby on Debian latest. Now that you have it installed, you can use it to create and package your Ruby projects into Omnibus installers.

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