From: Peter Aronoff <telemachus@...>
Date: 2011-01-28T09:14:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34917] Re: The ruby-lang.org downloads page should include RVM for OS X

On Fri Jan 28 2011 @  8:38, Shota Fukumori (sora_h) wrote:
> RVM is not official, and makes problem more difficult. (magically
> path, magically cd, etc)
> ...and I wanna see problems about installing ruby on OSX.

MacPorts and Fink *are* mentioned, but they are also not official. The main
problems on OSX I've had or seen others have are relate to old, buggy or
missing libraries (no readline, buggy, out-of-date libxml[1], difficulties
with openssl). Any package manager can help with this, but rvm adds
something that MacPorts and Fink are not nearly as helpful with: support
for multiple Ruby interpreters (and gemsets).

In my experience, rvm doesn't not make problems more difficult. It makes
working with multiple versions of Ruby (which is important for many people)
much easier than it would otherwise be. Since the unofficial MacPorts and
Fink are on the official site, I think we should also mention rvm.

Thanks, Peter

[1]: for example http://nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html
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