ruby-dev 4.2 (i386 binary) in ubuntu intrepid

 Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and
 easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to
 process text files and to do system management tasks (as in
 perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.
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 This package provides the header files, necessary to make extension
 library for Ruby.
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 This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian's default
 Ruby version (currently 1.8.x).