From: Chris Thomas <chris@...>
Date: 2003-10-29T04:17:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Building Ruby 1.8.1 on Panther


On Oct 26, 2003, at 6:34 PM, Richard Kilmer wrote:

> I just posted a entry to my (new) weblog on building the latest CVS of 
> Ruby on OS X Panther.  It covers installing readline before Ruby to 
> enable irb to work properly.  You can find the post here:
>
> http://richkilmer.blogs.com/ether/2003/10/building_ruby_1.html

Cool, thanks! I've been meaning to install 1.8 myself.

> I will be posting the use of xCode (Apple's new code editor) with 
> Ruby.  It has some nice support right out of the box for Ruby syntax 
> highlighting, etc.

Agreed, it's actually now a fairly decent Ruby editor. There are a few 
bugs in the Ruby highlighting and navigation, which I've already 
submitted to bugreport.apple.com. The navigation menu seems mostly 
useless on non-trivial files, unfortunately.

Chris