Installation
Requirements
- Ruby >= 1.8.7
Whois >= 1.5 requires Ruby 1.8.7 or newer. For older versions of Ruby, see the CHANGELOG.rdoc file.
In addition to the standard Ruby interpreter (MRI), Whois has been successfully tested against several Ruby implementations.
Installing Whois
Stable
The best way to install Whois is via RubyGems.
$ gem install whois
You might need administrator privileges on your system to install the Gem.
Development
The Whois repository is hosted on GitHub. You can start by watching or cloning the repository.
$ git clone git://github.com/weppos/whois
$ cd whois
$ sudo ruby setup.rb
Now run the tests to make sure everything is working as expected.
$ rake test