From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2008-04-10T21:51:27+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby versus Tk


On Apr 10, 2008, at 2:23 AM, Matt Mower wrote:

> Seeing the announcement of the book I thought I'd take another look at
> Fox. In the past I'd always hit installation problems with Fox so the
> binary gem sounded promising.
>
> I installed the current gem (fxruby (1.6.14)) but:

<boom>

> This is 10.5.2 with ports ruby:
>
> Siona:~ matt$ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-23 patchlevel 110) [i686-darwin9.1.0]

Right, the gem is intended for use with Apple's built-in Ruby for  
Leopard. If you're using MacPorts, however, I'd recommend just  
installing the port for FXRuby:

	sudo port install rb-fxruby

Hope this helps,

Lyle

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