From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2002-12-16T11:44:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby installation instruction for Mac and Linux

Ruby 1.6.7 is a part of Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar).  This is not built with 
all libraries, but does support everything used in your tutorial.

Ruby is accessible from the Terminal application (found in 
Applications/Utilities) in all versions of Mac OS X.

The text editors available on Mac OS X include emacs, pico and vi (the 
write up can be the same as for the linux variants run from a 
Terminal).  Mac OS X also has TextEdit, but care must be taken to save 
files as text-only and not the native format of rtf.

There is no working up-to-date version of Ruby for Mac OS 9 or earlier.

For Mac OS X 10.1, Marc Liyange has a binary package of Ruby 1.6.7 that 
can be found here: http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/#ruby.  Also, 
fink has Ruby at fink.sourceforge.net (1.6.7 is in the unstable tree 
the last time I looked).

On Sunday, December 15, 2002, at 09:20 PM, Chris Pine wrote:

> [snip]
>
> Not having much Linux experience at all, and never having had a Mac, 
> are
> there instructions similar to these out there that someone could point 
> me
> to?  I imagine that Linux instructions won't have to be so detailed, 
> but Mac
> instructions really should be on par with what I wrote for the Windows
> installation.  Any help on this part would be greatly appreciated.
>
> [snip]