From: Mark Hubbart <discord@...>
Date: 2004-03-05T06:49:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.1 on OS X Panther and RubyCocoa


On Mar 4, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Gavin Kistner wrote:

> On Mar 4, 2004, at 1:49 PM, Phil Tomson wrote:
>> What's the best way to upgrade from the included Ruby (1.6.8) to
>> 1.8.1?
>
> Personally, I downloaded the source, built it, let it install in the 
> standard location (/usr/local/) and added that to my path.
>
> I think I also hunted down old copies and deleted them from their 
> standard-install locations.
>
> Dunno, though...what are your parameters for 'best'?
>
> I also trashed the built-in apache and built my own (again in the 
> standard dir) along with postgresql and mod_ruby and eruby and 
> ruby/postgres and more. The non-best aspect of this was that the 
> Sharing pane in System Preferences no longer allows me to start/stop 
> apache.

I believe you can solve this by editing the apache startup item to run 
your new apache. I did this when I was running fink's apache; just look 
in /System/Libray/StartupItems/Apache... there's a script in there. 
change the paths in it, and you *should* be good to go. You may have to 
change the $PATH environment variable too, though. Can't quite remember 
for sure.

I wouldn't, though, trash the originals. when you update the system, 
they might just go right back in anyways, or worse, just parts of them. 
Also, you might want to be able to test something on the default setup, 
to make sure it'll run properly for Joe User, who doesn't know how to 
upgrade like that, and wouldn't want to anyhow. :)

--Mark