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YUMmy. Lucas Chan helped my install ruby on RHEL

I was recently trying to install ruby, rubygems, and rails on a fresh Red Hat install. I was following the trusted Hive Logic install guide for os X, and I figured it wouldn't be that far off from redhat. Ruby compiled smoothly, but while installing RubyGems I came across a zlib error. After some fairly agressive googling, I came upon Lucas Chan's post on the problem.

It worked like a charm. At first I didn't know what YUM was, and once I found out it was a package installing I didn't exect to have it. I surely didn't want to compile that too (unless I was sure there was no other way). Turns out, Yum was already installed, and I got ruby gems going. Thanks to Lucas, a fellow defaultish wordpress theme blogger.