From: "Van Dyk, Joe" <joe.vandyk@...>
Date: 2004-11-04T08:13:31+09:00
Subject: Re: installing ruby on MacOS X


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert [mailto:sigzero@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 6:34 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> 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
> 

I installed the latest stable release (1.8.2) a couple days ago on my
mac.  I had previously installed it via darwinports, but that installed
version 1.8.1, and I wanted the most recent one.

So I downloaded the source code, typed './configure; make; sudo make
install' to install ruby, then downloaded rubygems, then went from
there.  Not terribly complicated.