> Beside http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyWithoutRoot is > there any tutorial to help me really install ruby on linux > without root access. If you run Linux on your machine, you might want to use AllInOneRuby [1] to create allinoneruby.bin, which is a big binary embedding the Ruby interpreter and the runtime environment, and copy this file to the machine of your provider. I've done this several times. Works flawlessly as long as your GCC-version isn't newer than the one of your provider... In one xterm: $ ruby allinoneruby.rb Stripping... Creating allinoneruby.bin ... $ tar c allinoneruby.bin | nc -l -p 1234 In another xterm: $ ssh erik / ssh.my.provider -R 1234:localhost:1234 erik / ssh.my.provider's password: erik / shh.my.provider:~> nc localhost 1234 | tar x erik / shh.my.provider:~> echo "p 1234" > test.rb erik / shh.my.provider:~> ./allinoneruby.bin test.rb 1234 That's how I do this. No installation, no admin things. Just one Ruby executable. gegroet, Erik V. [1] http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/allinoneruby/index.html