From: Lyle Johnson Date: 2008-03-28T09:45:52+09:00 Subject: Re: Help installing fxruby on osx On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Daniel Wilkerson wrote: > Why doesn't Apple just make one way to install things? Their strength > seems to be system integration, and yet they really fall down here. Well, technically, they're only responsible for the Ruby that comes with OS X, the one that you find in /usr/bin. MacPorts, though sponsored (I think?) in part by Apple, is an independent effort to bring more free and open source software to Mac users. > So you mean put this into my .profile: > export RUBYOPT=rubygems Yes, right. > Doing that and then also running /Applications/Utilities/X11.app (NOT > XDarwin!) works. Great! > And gems is not just "built-in" to ruby? Why do I have to tell ruby > about ruby gems? RubyGems is officially part of Ruby 1.9, but no, it wasn't integrated with Ruby 1.8. > See above comment about the stupidity of there being more than one > "namespace" in which applications can be installed. Tell me about it. It gets very confusing (for me, anyways) trying to support all of these configurations. > Again, Apple should try to coordinate all of these software distribution > / installation mechanisms. How do we suggest it to them? He may kill me for mentioning his name, but Laurent Sansonetti seems to be in charge (as much as anyone) of the Ruby stuff in Mac OS X. Google will lead you to him. > So, as above, it works now. Thank you for your help. > > One question though: Suppose I build a GUI app using Fox and FXRuby and > I want to distribute it for all 3 platforms. How do I package it up? I see you've started a new thread on this topic (good idea), so we'll pick it up there.