From: Matt <matt@...>
Date: 2001-07-21T04:05:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18196] Re: Newbie. Sinking fast. Please help.

I'm aware that it's in the ports collection. However, FreeBSD isn't the platform on which I'm most proficient. It just happens to be what the machine I'm on is running. I'm not root, so AFAIK I can't install anything from the ports tree. That's why I'm building by hand. I'm not sure that I'd trust the patches to 1.4.0 (what's in th ports tree on here) applied against 1.6.4. But I'll take a look anyway. Not being familiar with Ruby, I doubt anything in there will jump out at me and say "Look! Apply me and life will be good!"... ;)

With the constraints (time and other) I have, I may go back to writing this in Perl. Though with what I'd like to do with it later, Ruby seems to be a better choice.

Thanks,

--Matt

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Michael Neumann wrote:
 
> Ruby is included in FreeBSD's ports collection. Thus, you don't have to build it yourself.
> But, if you want to build it yourself have a look at the patch directory. Maybe something
> interesting in there.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
>   Michael 
> 
>