From: Jeff Fox <jeff@...>
Date: 2001-12-30T12:44:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29693] Re: Ruby 1.6.6 on MacOSX10.1.2


On Saturday, December 29, 2001, at 09:22  PM, Chris Gehlker wrote:

> On 12/29/01 1:16 PM, "george girton" <ggirton@mac.com> wrote:
>
>> I have compiled and installed 1.6.6 on MacOSX10.1.2
>> using the December developer tools. And it works!
>> I did have to become superuser for a moment to do this:
>> make install
>>
>> But I have one question, Ruby only runs when
>> I say
>> /usr/local/bin/ruby
>> at the % prompt
>>
>> and I want to make it short instead, and just say
>> %ruby
>>
>> Maybe this is not a Ruby question, but a
>> Unix question. Can someone tell me how to make
>> the system search for Ruby executable in /usr/local/bin ?
>>
>> thanks!
>
> Assuming you're running tcsh, add this to the .tcshrc file in your home
> directory:
>
> setenv PATH {$PATH}:/usr/local/bin

When I finished building and installing ruby I had to execute "rehash" 
in order to get ruby and irb to execute without a fully qualified path. 
/usr/local/bin was already in my PATH. Starting a new terminal session 
would work as well.

Jeff