Hello internet,

A long time ago, I wrote about installing Jruby 1.7.3 on FreeBSD 9.1. Recently I was looking to build a small Sinatra application on CentOS 6.x.

Here's my notes on how I got it done.

MRI Ruby first:

1. Install MRI Ruby:

I used …

It turns out that installing Apache 2.4 on CentOS 6.6 is a bit of a pain.

These are the notes I compiled after a lot of effort and many Google searches :) Scroll to the bottom for the sources!

Install the Development tools and dependencies:

yum groupinstall Development tools …

On CentOS 6.x this is super easy to install since Python 2.6.x is already installed (Yum dependency).

1. Get the script:

wget -O speedtest-cli https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest_cli.py

2. Make it executable:

chmod +x speedtest-cli

3. Run it:

./speedtest-cli

Sample output:

Retrieving …