From: Ryan Eibling <ryan@...>
Date: 2007-01-18T02:55:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Mac OS X

Vassilis Rizopoulos wrote:
> Looking for pointers to installation guides for Ruby on Mac OS X.
> Just switched from the PC (I have my first working week behind me :) ) 
> and I don't want to go back.
> ...

I'm a Mac n00b who needed the same advice. First I found Fink but that 
didn't work out so well. It didn't create a symbolic link to the new 
version of Ruby, which was named "ruby18" after installing from source 
(no up-to-date binary was available), it didn't provide a new irb so the 
old irb still used the old ruby, etc, etc. I was ready to follow that 
hivelogic article everybody's been mentioning but thankfully I've been 
spared the hassle by this: http://tinyurl.com/ysaf3n . It's a script 
that does all that stuff for you, with a few modifications (ruby 1.8.5, 
mongrel).