From: mortee <mortee.lists@...>
Date: 2007-10-29T05:16:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Changes in Leopard

John Tsombakos wrote:
> The question I haven't seen asked (or answered) is how would I switch 
> from my /usr/local version of Ruby & Rails (and gems) to the Leopard 
> stock versions? I can't just pluck /usr/local/bin out of my PATH, 
> because there are other things installed there (ImageMagick, Subversion 
> [well, that's now system installed though], etc.) ?
> 
> Do I just delete/rename the applications? (ruby, irb, rake, svn*, etc)

If you want to keep using your locally installed commands from
/usr/local/*, but switch back and forth between you custom version of
ruby and the system-provided one, then I'd recommend installing it under
a custom prefix (i.e. not /usr/local), and add/remove that path from
your PATH. At least that's what I would try to do - or play around with
symlinks. However, the PATH method can be switched at will on a
per-process basis, while using symlinks would affect the whole system at
once.

mortee