From: Andy Koch <andy.koch@...>
Date: 2007-05-04T03:36:17+09:00
Subject: mac help with rubygems

Hi,

I'm trying to expand my horizons by learning to do some dev work on an 
iMac that I inherited from a co-worker.

My understanding of Mac OS is fairly described as infantile; I think of 
Mac OS as a really pretty version of Linux.

Now to my point...

I'm having some trouble with the FireRuby gem.  It appears to install, 
but running it; well here is the output...

hst-27-241:~ $ gem update fireruby
Updating installed gems...
Need to update 1 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org
.
complete
Attempting remote update of fireruby
Select which gem to install for your platform (powerpc-darwin7.9.0)
  1. fireruby 0.4.1 (i586-linux)
  2. fireruby 0.4.1 (mswin32)
  3. fireruby 0.4.0 (mswin32)
  4. fireruby 0.4.0 (i586-linux)
  5. Skip this gem
  6. Cancel installation
 > 1
Successfully installed fireruby-0.4.1-i586-linux
Installing ri documentation for fireruby-0.4.1-i586-linux...
Installing RDoc documentation for fireruby-0.4.1-i586-linux...
Gems: [fireruby] updated
hst-27-241:~ $ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require 'fireruby'
LoadError: no such file to load -- fr_lib
         from 
/opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in 
`gem_original_require'
         from 
/opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `require'
         from 
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fireruby-0.4.1-i586-linux/lib/fireruby.rb:21
         from 
/opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in 
`gem_original_require'
         from 
/opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in require'
         from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0>

...

thus I interpret this to mean fr_lib.so file not found

I've also installed Firebird 1.5.x for good measure.

and now I wallow in Maconfusion,

any help appreciated

regards,