John Joyce
5/24/2007 5:42:00 AM
On May 24, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Ari Brown wrote:
> Ok everyone - it worked. Thanks everyone for helping me through
> this issue. It was like the midlife crisis of my teens.
>
> BUT when I tried to change my path, it didn't work. I'm using tcsh,
> and am doing two things:
> setting my path directly through the command line:
> setenv PATH /usr/local/bin/:$PATH
>
> and through /private/etc/csh.cshrc
> I am adding setenv PATH /usr/local/bin/:$PATH to the end of the
> file and saving it.
Which version of OSX are you using?
The tcsh shell was default in Panther, but in Tiger default is bash.
Bash is a bit easier, since there is more current stuff on blogs and
websites to help you with that.
Either way, consider getting the book Unix in a Nutshell. It covers
all the major unixes including OSX and the major shells.
You'll find it handy as a reference when you want to install or
change things in OSX.
the Hivelogic site does have pretty much the best and most up-to-date
how-to's on installing Ruby/Rails/etc... on OSX.
The preferred environment is to do your own install, since Apple
admittedly munged the factory Ruby install.
Good news is, it is easy to do and the experience will help you
learning about the unix command line environment more.
More good news, the next OSX, Leopard, has it installed correctly.