Installing Rake from GitHub on NixOS Latest

1. Open your terminal on NixOS Latest.

2. Update your system:

sudo nixos-rebuild switch 

3. 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

4. Clone the Rake repository from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/ruby/rake.git

5. Change into the directory of the cloned repository:

cd rake 

6. Check out the latest version available:

git checkout latest 

7. 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.

8. 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.

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