installing ruby on MacOS X

[Steven Marcus]

Hi all!

Ruby newbie here.

I'd like to install and work with Ruby 1.8.x on MacOS X.
I have found
http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyOnMacintosh
and
http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000199.html
to be helpful.

It appears that my options are
1) download the source and compile it myself
2) download a binary and install it
3) install via darwinports
4) install via fink

After installation I believe I can add ruby libraries
1) manually
2) as Ruby Gems
3) from the RAA
4) via darwinports if using 3 above
5) via fink if using 4 above

I imagine there are a number of trade offs to the above approaches.
Also, there appears to be overlap between (darwinports|fink) and gems
and RAA. As I write this darwinports appears to have a more active
ruby community, judging from the fact that it offers 58 ports versus
16 for fink.

I'd like things to be painless and relatively automatic. By automatic, I
mean that installing and especially upgrading libraries should be
quick and painless.

Can someone share their experience?

TIA
Steven Marcus

 

[Josef Pospíšil]

Hello,

I'm using Darwinports for ruby and some other libraries like
ruby-postgresql, mainly for its similarity to freebsd ports (I'm using
freebsd on production servers) and community around Darwinports. And
gems for other packages. And I can say it works quick nad painless for
me.

Fink seems little bit "unordered" for myself, but it's quite long time
ago I looked at it. For comparing RPA and Gems you should look to some
older threads on this mailing list
(http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/114892
just for first look).

Hope it helps.

Pepe

 

[Sam Goldman]

I installed from source. In order to not overlap with the copy in /usr,
I installed into /opt and put that in the beginning of my path. I didn't
install into /usr/local because I have things in there I don't
necessarily want at the beginning of my path (e.g. an updated version of
zlib for special things, while I still want the default to link to the
dylib in /usr)

After that, anything I installed (either gems or source) use the copy in
/opt and install into /opt. The system works fairly well.

Ruby also seems to have its own versioning system, where directories
within /usr/lib/ruby indicate the version of the library used.

 

[Phil Tomson]

I installed from source. In order to not overlap with the copy in /usr,
I installed into /opt and put that in the beginning of my path. I didn't

darwinports puts ruby in /opt as well.

I also installed ruby from darwinports.

Phil

 

[Robert]

Hi all!

Ruby newbie here.

I'd like to install and work with Ruby 1.8.x on MacOS X.
I have found
http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyOnMacintosh
and
http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000199.html
to be helpful.

It appears that my options are
1) download the source and compile it myself
2) download a binary and install it
3) install via darwinports
4) install via fink

After installation I believe I can add ruby libraries
1) manually
2) as Ruby Gems
3) from the RAA
4) via darwinports if using 3 above
5) via fink if using 4 above

I imagine there are a number of trade offs to the above approaches.
Also, there appears to be overlap between (darwinports|fink) and gems
and RAA. As I write this darwinports appears to have a more active
ruby community, judging from the fact that it offers 58 ports versus
16 for fink.

I'd like things to be painless and relatively automatic. By automatic, I
mean that installing and especially upgrading libraries should be
quick and painless.

Can someone share their experience?

TIA
Steven Marcus

http://richkilmer.blogs.com/ether/2003/10/building_ruby_1.html

HTH