From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-03-05T14:39:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.1 on OS X Panther and RubyCocoa

In article <579C3E55-6E52-11D8-80C6-000393876156@cox.net>,
Mark Wilson  <mwilson13@cox.net> wrote:
>
>On Mar 4, 2004, at 3:49 PM, Phil Tomson wrote:
>
>> Being new to OS X (about 2 weeks now).
>>
>> What's the best way to upgrade from the included Ruby (1.6.8) to
>> 1.8.1?
>>
>> A couple of other questions:
>>
>> 1. I want to use RubyCocoa; are there any issues if I upgrade to
>> 1.8.1?
>> 2. In the future it would be cool to be able to release my RubyCocoa
>> creations into the OS X wild (even to non-Ruby users).  Is there any
>> way currently to package a RubyCocoa app so that anyone who downloads
>> it can just run it without having to go and get the RubyCocoa libs?
>>
>> [snip]
>
>DarwinPorts has a fair amount of Ruby stuff (including RubyCocoa). 
>There's a fair amount there and, of course, a lot more that could be 
>done (I myself don't have the competence or the time to contribute in 
>the near future). Here's a link:
>
>http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/ports/?by=cat&substr=ruby
>

Pardon my ignorance, but how does one use these ports?

Phil