From: James Cunningham <jameshcunningham@...>
Date: 2007-01-18T06:20:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Mac OS X

On 2007-01-17 12:50:52 -0500, Ryan Eibling <ryan@NOSPAMeibling.net> said:

> 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.

It didn't create a symbolic link because it wouldn't want to mess with 
the OS X install of Ruby. Easiest is to do what I did: put /sw/bin on 
your path before /usr/bin.

Best,
James