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Ruby on Mac OS X

Vassilis Rizopoulos

1/15/2007 7:15:00 PM

Looking for pointers to installation guides for Ruby on Mac OS X.
Just switched from the PC (I have my first working week behind me :) )
and I don't want to go back.
I played around with the apple installed 1.8.2, but obviously it's not
enough and I remember seeing some posts about bugs and problems.
So, Mac OS X newbie asks for help.
Oh, I have no fear of gcc and compiling my own stuff. Just a few tips on
the pitfalls of Mac OS X would be nice.
Thanks in advance,
V.-

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9 Answers

andy

1/15/2007 7:21:00 PM

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On Jan 15, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Vassilis Rizopoulos wrote:

> Looking for pointers to installation guides for Ruby on Mac OS X.
> Just switched from the PC (I have my first working week behind
> me :) ) and I don't want to go back.
> I played around with the apple installed 1.8.2, but obviously it's
> not enough and I remember seeing some posts about bugs and problems.
> So, Mac OS X newbie asks for help.
> Oh, I have no fear of gcc and compiling my own stuff. Just a few
> tips on the pitfalls of Mac OS X would be nice.

I would (and do) use macports at http://www.mac.... Then it's
just

$ sudo ports install ruby
$ sudo ports install gem
etc


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eoghan

1/15/2007 7:22:00 PM

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On 15 Jan 2007, at 19:15, Vassilis Rizopoulos wrote:

> Looking for pointers to installation guides for Ruby on Mac OS X.
> Just switched from the PC (I have my first working week behind
> me :) ) and I don't want to go back.
> I played around with the apple installed 1.8.2, but obviously it's
> not enough and I remember seeing some posts about bugs and problems.
> So, Mac OS X newbie asks for help.
> Oh, I have no fear of gcc and compiling my own stuff. Just a few
> tips on the pitfalls of Mac OS X would be nice.
> Thanks in advance,
> V.-

Hi
Have a look at the macports site: http://www.mac...
Installation instructions in the wiki... works well in my
experience... hope that helps...
Eoghan

Giles Bowkett

1/15/2007 8:12:00 PM

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Like everybody said, it's all about MacPorts. download it, install it,
and then it's just

% sudo ports install ruby
% sudo ports install gem

and you're good.

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Philip Hallstrom

1/15/2007 9:36:00 PM

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matt

1/16/2007 6:16:00 PM

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Vassilis Rizopoulos <damphyr@freemail.gr> wrote:

> Looking for pointers to installation guides for Ruby on Mac OS X.
> Just switched from the PC (I have my first working week behind me :) )
> and I don't want to go back.
> I played around with the apple installed 1.8.2, but obviously it's not
> enough and I remember seeing some posts about bugs and problems.
> So, Mac OS X newbie asks for help.
> Oh, I have no fear of gcc and compiling my own stuff. Just a few tips on
> the pitfalls of Mac OS X would be nice.

I installed 1.8.5 on Tiger easily without using MacPorts or anything
like that. I installed readline first, as explained here:

<http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_...
r>

m.

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Ryan Eibling

1/17/2007 5:51:00 PM

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Vassilis Rizopoulos wrote:
> Looking for pointers to installation guides for Ruby on Mac OS X.
> Just switched from the PC (I have my first working week behind me :) )
> and I don't want to go back.
> ...

I'm a Mac n00b who needed the same advice. First I found Fink but that
didn't work out so well. It didn't create a symbolic link to the new
version of Ruby, which was named "ruby18" after installing from source
(no up-to-date binary was available), it didn't provide a new irb so the
old irb still used the old ruby, etc, etc. I was ready to follow that
hivelogic article everybody's been mentioning but thankfully I've been
spared the hassle by this: http://tinyurl.... . It's a script
that does all that stuff for you, with a few modifications (ruby 1.8.5,
mongrel).

Giles Bowkett

1/17/2007 7:13:00 PM

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Honestly, if the hivelogic thing works for you, that's awesome, but I
had such a messy experience trying to use that thing -- in part due to
zero experience with C compilation -- that I consider that entire
domain blacklisted. Using that guide was a nightmare for me, and the
MacPorts solution was totally effortless. Just my two cents.

On 1/17/07, Ryan Eibling <ryan@nospameibling.net> wrote:
> Vassilis Rizopoulos wrote:
> > Looking for pointers to installation guides for Ruby on Mac OS X.
> > Just switched from the PC (I have my first working week behind me :) )
> > and I don't want to go back.
> > ...
>
> I'm a Mac n00b who needed the same advice. First I found Fink but that
> didn't work out so well. It didn't create a symbolic link to the new
> version of Ruby, which was named "ruby18" after installing from source
> (no up-to-date binary was available), it didn't provide a new irb so the
> old irb still used the old ruby, etc, etc. I was ready to follow that
> hivelogic article everybody's been mentioning but thankfully I've been
> spared the hassle by this: http://tinyurl.... . It's a script
> that does all that stuff for you, with a few modifications (ruby 1.8.5,
> mongrel).
>
>


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Drew Olson

1/17/2007 7:27:00 PM

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Giles Bowkett wrote:
> Honestly, if the hivelogic thing works for you, that's awesome, but I
> had such a messy experience trying to use that thing -- in part due to
> zero experience with C compilation -- that I consider that entire
> domain blacklisted. Using that guide was a nightmare for me, and the
> MacPorts solution was totally effortless. Just my two cents.

I completely agree. The key here is that using MacPorts gives you a
sandbox to install into without completely screwing up your environment.
MacPorts is easier and MUCH safer in my opinion.

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jameshcunningham@gmail.com

1/17/2007 9:15:00 PM

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On 2007-01-17 12:50:52 -0500, Ryan Eibling <ryan@NOSPAMeibling.net> said:

> Vassilis Rizopoulos wrote:
>> Looking for pointers to installation guides for Ruby on Mac OS X.
>> Just switched from the PC (I have my first working week behind me :) )
>> and I don't want to go back.
>> ...
>
> I'm a Mac n00b who needed the same advice. First I found Fink but that
> didn't work out so well. It didn't create a symbolic link to the new
> version of Ruby, which was named "ruby18" after installing from source
> (no up-to-date binary was available), it didn't provide a new irb so
> the old irb still used the old ruby, etc, etc.

It didn't create a symbolic link because it wouldn't want to mess with
the OS X install of Ruby. Easiest is to do what I did: put /sw/bin on
your path before /usr/bin.

Best,
James