From: sigzero@... (Robert)
Date: 2004-11-03T23:33:50+09:00
Subject: Re: installing ruby on MacOS X

Steven Marcus <steven.marcus@gmail.com> wrote in message news:<281148e704110203477ed14630@mail.gmail.com>...
> Hi all!
> 
> Ruby newbie here.
> 
> I'd like to install and work with Ruby 1.8.x on MacOS X.
> I have found
>  http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyOnMacintosh
> and
>  http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000199.html
> to be helpful.
> 
> It appears that my options are
> 1) download the source and compile it myself
> 2) download a binary and install it
> 3) install via darwinports
> 4) install via fink
> 
> After installation I believe I can add ruby libraries
> 1) manually
> 2) as Ruby Gems
> 3) from the RAA
> 4) via darwinports if using 3 above
> 5) via fink if using 4 above
> 
> I imagine there are a number of trade offs to the above approaches.
> Also, there appears to be overlap between (darwinports|fink) and gems
> and RAA. As I write this darwinports appears to have a more active
> ruby community, judging from the fact that it offers 58 ports versus
> 16 for fink.

> 
> I'd like things to be painless and relatively automatic. By automatic, I
> mean that installing and especially upgrading libraries should be
> quick and painless.
> 
> Can someone share their experience?
> 
> TIA
> Steven Marcus

http://richkilmer.blogs.com/ether/2003/10/building_ruby_1.html

HTH