From: Daniel Harple <dharple@...>
Date: 2006-04-24T04:09:12+09:00
Subject: What Happened to the Default Ruby Installation on Mac OS X 10.4.6?

I usually use a ruby installed through DarwinPorts, but I have some  
scripts which are hardcoded for /usr/bin/ruby.

My shell wrote:
> $ pwd
> /usr/lib/ruby
> $ ls */*
> 1.8/powerpc-darwin8.0:
> rbconfig.rb
>
> 1.8/universal-darwin8.0:
> config.h        dlconfig.h      intern.h        re.h             
> rubyio.h        util.h
> defines.h       dln.h           missing.h       regex.h          
> rubysig.h       version.h
> dl.h            env.h           node.h          ruby.h          st.h
> $ /usr/bin/ruby -e 'p $LOAD_PATH'
> ["/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8", "/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ 
> powerpc-darwin8.0", "/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby", "/usr/lib/ruby/1.8",  
> "/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.0", "."]

If you can't see from the listing, the standard lib is gone. Also  
gone: /usr/bin/ri and /usr/bin/irb. I haven't messed around with the  
default installation, I suspect the update to 10.4.6 did. Can anyone  
else confirm this?

There is a 1.8/universal-darwin8.0 folder, but ruby isn't universal.

> $ file /usr/bin/ruby
> /usr/bin/ruby: Mach-O executable ppc

-- Daniel