From: Chris Gehlker <canyonrat@...>
Date: 2006-08-16T11:20:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Please help fixing gems on OSX


On Aug 15, 2006, at 5:10 PM, andre in LA wrote:

> Please consider my being very new to Mac OSX and BSD Unix.
>
> I installed Ruby 1.8.4 by following a list of shell commands ( I
> believe
> http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ 
> ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger
> ).

OK, I would have used .bash_profile rather than .bash_login but OK.  
The part about needing to install readln and gems separately is just  
mistaken but I can't see how it would do any harm. Using curl to  
download a file rather than just clicking on the link also strikes me  
as weird but it should work.


One think that is emphasized, but is easy to get get wrong, is  
setting your path so that you will be accessing the new Ruby rather  
than the old one. Try typing
'which ruby' on the command line. Report back what it says. If it's  
not /usr/local/bin/ruby then your path isn't set right. You can also  
do 'ruby -v' to make sure you have 10.8.4 or 5.

Finally, you need a file named .inputrc in your home folder that  
contains:
set completion-ignore-case On


This has nothing to do with ruby. it just makes it bearable to use  
bash on a case insensitive file system with the case sensitive unix  
tools.
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