From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2004-11-06T11:12:07+09:00
Subject: Re: installing ruby on MacOS X

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:49:02 +0900, Steven Marcus
<steven.marcus@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure if this is a darwinports or a rubygems problem:
> 

Looks like a darwinports problem to me....

> After an install of darwinports, I installed ruby +preview and rb-rubygems.
> 
> Unfortunately,
> $ gem help
> did not work, complaining about an invalid path to the ruby interpreter.
> 
> I found that the path to the ruby interpreter specified in
> 
> /opt/local/bin/gem
> /opt/local/bin/gem_server
> /opt/local/bin/update_rubygems
> 

Weird.  I installed it with darwinports and it set the ruby
interpreter path correctly.

> were all bogus. Instead of pointing to /opt/local/bin/ruby, they were
> pointing to my somewhere deep inside the original darwinports source
> installation directory outside the /opt/local subtree.
> 
> I manually patched the files and things appear to be working.
> Anyone know how to go about getting the fix in?
> 

This site lists the maintainer's email address.  What did you have to fix?

http://darwinports.org/ports/?by=name&substr=gems&Search=Submit 

Thanks,

Chad Fowler
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