From: Sharon Phillips <phillipsds@...>
Date: 2007-07-03T07:27:41+09:00
Subject: Re: I've um... broken Ruby


On 03/07/2007, at 3:28 AM, John Joyce wrote:

>
> On Jul 2, 2007, at 5:43 AM, Sharon Phillips wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've run amuck Sunday afternoon trying to install fxRuby and fox  
>> under OSX, and after many hours of errors, trying mac-ports, fink,  
>> building from source, updating to Ruby 1.8.6 (from 1.8.4) and  
>> ripping various bits out and trying to replace them, I'm now in a  
>> complete mess.
>>
>> Any ideas from anyone as to how I wipe Ruby and start from  
>> scratch. I'm newish to the mac and unix. I can get around, edit  
>> files etc, but don't have much understanding behind what I do (any  
>> advice here much appreciated too). Just enough knowledge to be  
>> dangerous.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dave
>>
>
>
> Uh, yeah, 1st of all... don't use more than one package manager on  
> a machine (any *nix). Fink or MacPorts not both. Results can be  
> unpredictable, though usually harmless.
> Remove all of those. Remove all the stuff you installed.
> Do a new clean install.
> I recommend going with the building from source using the Hivelogic  
> installation guide. (google Ruby and OS X and Hivelogic, you will  
> find it, make sure to visit their home page first so that you find  
> the latest version of the installation guide)
> This will give you more practice working at the unix command line,  
> but it will also help you become familiar with where and how stuff  
> is installed on your machine and in Ruby. While you're at it, pick  
> up the book "Learning Unix for OS X Tiger" (there is an older  
> panther version too) It is a gentle intro to unix. As a reference  
> ( for any type of unix) get "Unix in a Nutshell"
>
> You really won't get hurt and it is actually quite useful to know a  
> lot of that stuff. What's more, it's a heck of a lot easier to  
> install Ruby manually than PHP!!
>

Thanks John,

I've seen the book I think, but have held off buying any Tiger books  
for about a year now as Leopard was 'imminent'... Seems like it might  
be a good idea anyway.

I'll try stripping it all and building from source. I'm a pretty  
experiences Windows guy, but most of that knowledge is meaningless in  
the *nix world, so here's a dumb question: How do I remove all the  
stuff i installed? Finder doesn't seem to show a lot of places (which  
is good), and I'm not familiar with where everything goes. Also, am I  
limited to vi or pico when editing .profile files, or is it possible  
to use a gui based editor?

Looks like I'll have to buy the book. :)

Cheers,
Dave