From: Robert Hicks Date: 2004-11-04T12:13:49+09:00 Subject: Re: installing ruby on MacOS X On 11/3/04 6:13 PM, in article 67B3A7DA6591BE439001F27362333512038C8C27@xch-nw-28.nw.nos.boeing.com, "Van Dyk, Joe" wrote: > >> -----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 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. > Does IRB work? I thought readline had to be installed... Robert