From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-06-18T03:30:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Nervous Nuby Starting Out!

Don't install gems.

Instead, install a more recent version of Ruby than what comes with oyur mac.

First, download the graphic installer for ports or fink, then

port install ruby

or

fink install ruby


and you're set.


Have you joined my RubyMentor project? Are they treating you nicely? :)


Aur

On 6/17/07, The MacRubyist <macrubyist@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> "Axel Etzold" <AEtzold@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> [very useful hints and bits snipped, will definitely look at this stuff]
>
> Unfortunately, the very first real-world Ordinary Stupid Problem i
> actually want to solve is that the flow of control in one of my Applescripts
> that creates text data and saves it in a small bunch of XML files (which
> i use because my boyfriend pointed out that XML works well as a Better
> Text File) is slightly wonky and won't iterate through the last file, so
> i'd actually quite like to implement the
> iterate-through-small-bunch-of-files thing in Ruby. I know the basics of using the DOM in as simple
> and easy way as I can get away with.
> Having just run irb so far because am slightly scared of getting into
> compilation and package management without using binaries, (and I tried
> telling Tiger to 'require gems' and it didn't like that, which presumably
> means i have to download & compile) would you advise me to:
> a) debug my Applescript properly by staring at it until I grow
> cross-eyed, because debugging is good experience and then i won't be tempted to
> jump ahead too far just to get something to work.
> b) try to compile and install Gems so I can have a go at using the
> packages that will give me an XML parser
> or
>
> c) Take a Deep Breath and start from the beginning with the Pickaxe and
> Why's cartoon book, desperately reining in my desire to work with any
> real-world data at all until I've got the hang of the basics, at which
> point I can 'plumb in' actual data, because the reason I want to have a go
> at Ruby In The First Place is to take a step back and learn from the
> ground up to avoid the heaving mass of spaghetti code I can see in my
> future if I keep learning Applescript as self-taught with nobody to talk to.
> The (...still nervous...) MacRubyist
>
>
>