Ruby OpenID Library Installation ↑

Install as a gem ↑

ruby-openid is distributed on RubyGems. Install it:

gem install ruby-openid

This is probably what you need.

Manual Installation ↑

Unpack the archive and run setup.rb to install:

ruby setup.rb

setup.rb installs the library into your system ruby. If don’t want to add openid to you system ruby, you may instead add the lib directory of the extracted tarball to your RUBYLIB environment variable:

$ export RUBYLIB=${RUBYLIB}:/path/to/ruby-openid/lib

Testing the Installation ↑

Make sure everything installed ok:

$> irb
irb$> require "openid"
=> true

Run the test suite ↑

Go into the test directory and execute the runtests.rb script.

Next steps ↑