From: Unnsse Khan <untz@...>
Date: 2005-10-15T06:27:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with IRB and some sample code...

Dear Joe Van Dyk:

I followed Ezra's instructions and grabbed the source, compiled it,  
and placed
it in /usr/, not "/usr/local/" and therefore, I don't see what the  
difference is?

The only difference is the location of directories....

These that I followed are (from Ezra) are:

1. Get Ruby1.8.2
   curl -O http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/2338/ruby-1.8.2.tar.gz

2 untar it and cd into the source directory
   tar xvzf ruby-*
cd ruby-1.8.2

3. configure the makefiles. and tell it to install in /usr/bin
./configure --prefix=/usr

4. compile the source
make

5. test the compiled source for errors
make test

6. install the newly built binaries if no errors in the tests
sudo make install

Ezra's instructions didn't fix my "tab completion" problem on IRB,  
and did
break my RubyGems install...... I really thought that one could fix  
their Ruby distribution
by using RubyGems... RubyGems are very important so please someone,  
could anyone help me?

Kindest regards,

Unnsse

On Oct 13, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Joe Van Dyk wrote:

>
> Haven't followed this thread, but Apple has a broken Ruby.
>
> Get the Ruby source, compile it yourself, install it into /usr/local,
> and be happy with Ruby on OS X.
>
> tar zxf ruby-1.8.2.tar.gz
> cd ruby-1.8.2
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
> make
> sudo make install
>
> And adjust your path so that /usr/local/bin is before /usr/bin.
>
>