From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-05-04T13:41:54+09:00
Subject: Re: mac help with rubygems


On May 4, 2007, at 3:36 AM, Andy Koch wrote:

> 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,

Maybe this page can help:

http://fireruby.rubyforge.org/

According to this it should support OS X. However I see you're  
running PPC not Intel Mac, that means an extension written in C will  
have to be recompiled. Endian issues.