Installing the Freaky Freaky Sandbox

Two steps: (1) patch Ruby 1.8.5 and (2) install the sandbox extension.

1. Patching Ruby 1.8.5

Note: Ruby 1.9 in CVS has been patched (as of 2006-09-23) to support the latest sandbox. You can skip this step if you have 1.9 installed. Ruby 1.8 in Subversion still needs the patch to fix error.c (as of 2007-01-18)

Presently, the sandbox requires a patch for Ruby 1.8.5. It's a pretty significant patch, but shouldn't effect Ruby's stability.

$ cd ruby-1.8.5
$ patch -p1 < ruby-1.8.5-sandbox_needs.patch
$ make
# make install

(Here is the patch for Ruby 1.8.6)

2. Installing the Extension

Since the sandbox is under heavy development, I'd suggest hitting Subversion:

$ svn co http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/svn/sandbox/trunk sandbox
$ cd sandbox
# ruby setup.rb

A recent development version is also available as a tarball: http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/dist/sandbox-0.4.tgz