ruby software package provides Interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby (default version), you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install ruby
ruby is installed in your system.
Make ensure the ruby package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep ruby *
You will get with ruby package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Interpreters |
| Package | ruby |
| Version | 1:1.9.3.4 |
| Description | Interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby (default version) |
| Sub Section | Interpreters |