From: "shane.pinnell@..." <shane.pinnell@...>
Date: 2006-09-07T12:20:10+09:00
Subject: Installing ROR with Darwin Ports

First let me say that I just got a new MacBook Pro and am looking
forward to developing on it. Let me also say that this is my first Mac,
so please bear with the infantile questions!

I am trying to install RoR with Darwin Ports, this seemed like the best
option for someone like me. I am going through the process just fine,
but when I attempt to install the Rails gem via: "sudo gem install
rails", I get the following error:

opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`gem_original_require': no such file to load -- sources (LoadError)

I have installed rails via: "sudo port install rb-rails", but the
instructions I was trying to follow called for installing via the gem.
I have read a post that went in to length debating the virtues of
managing things with gems or with MacPorts, I don't really care which I
end up using, as long as it works! I am familiar with the "gem" method
coming from a Windows world, so I guess I would prefer that.

I also tried installing RoR with the Hivelogic tutorial for compiling
and all, but somewhere along the line I hosed it up (I think I was
running software updates concurrently with the ruby build/install
process) and I had to re-install OSX!

Thanks in advance for any and all help.