From: Jos Backus <jos@...>
Date: 2012-09-15T05:09:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9.3 and OS X Mountain Lion

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On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com>wrote:

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> On Sep 14, 2012, at 12:00 , sto.mar@web.de wrote:
>
> > @Ryan: How about gems in this setting? Would installation or usage of
> gems work without additional adjustments?
>
> yup... it should just work. I recommend `gem update --system`, but that's
> not strictly necessary. 1.9 ships with rubygems and homebrew (unlike many
> linux distros) doesn't cripple it. The other nice thing is that going the
> homebrew route opens up a lot of other things to the student (easy access
> to databases, editors, etc).
>
> Fwiw, I have homebrew working on my Mac and it works well.

Jos
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Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com

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<div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Ryan Davis <sp=
an dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:ryand-ruby@zenspider.com" target=3D"_b=
lank">ryand-ruby@zenspider.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=
=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padd=
ing-left:1ex">
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On Sep 14, 2012, at 12:00 , <a href=3D"mailto:sto.mar@web.de">sto.mar@web.d=
e</a> wrote:<br>
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&gt; @Ryan: How about gems in this setting? Would installation or usage of =
gems work without additional adjustments?<br>
<br>
yup... it should just work. I recommend `gem update --system`, but that&#39=
;s not strictly necessary. 1.9 ships with rubygems and homebrew (unlike man=
y linux distros) doesn&#39;t cripple it. The other nice thing is that going=
 the homebrew route opens up a lot of other things to the student (easy acc=
ess to databases, editors, etc).<br>

<br></blockquote><div>Fwiw, I have homebrew working on my Mac and it works =
well.<br></div></div><br clear=3D"all">Jos<br>-- <br><div><font><font face=
=3D"arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Jos Backus</font></font></div><div><font><f=
ont face=3D"arial,helvetica,sans-serif">jos at <a href=3D"http://catnook.co=
m" target=3D"_blank">catnook.com</a><br>
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