ruby1.8-dev 1.8.7.173-1 (lpia binary) in ubuntu karmic

 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 contains the header files and the mkmf library, necessary
 to make extension library for Ruby 1.8.