From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2006-07-15T12:37:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Mac OSX Ruby Configuration Question

On Jul 14, 2006, at 8:31 PM, Ryan Raaum wrote:
> I would not modify anything in /usr/bin directly.  Apple assumes that
> the system /usr/bin is theirs and unmodified and will (and have!)  
> change
> things there in updates without warning - possibly breaking your
> modifications and potentially causing serious system problems.
> Installing in /usr/local and prepending it to your path is the usual
> unix way of doing things.

Just to speak on this point, I've been safely using the replacement  
solution for about 6 months now with no trouble at all.  But the one  
thing I did after I moved /usr/bin/ruby is to make a link from /opt/ 
local/bin/ruby (my darwinports installation) to /usr/bin/ruby.

Pathing works most of the time, but I had some problems with RadRails/ 
Eclipse because it doesn't appear to honor pathing provided  
in .profile or .login.  Which prompted the linking solution.  It's a  
little ugly and might go away with future updates, but it was about  
all I had left for a few programs that ignored my personal path  
information.
-Mat