Uninstalling 1.9 on OS X

[Daniel Waite]

I'm sorry. I didn't look before leaping, installed 1.9 on Leopard, and
now my all my Rails apps are hosed.

I installed 1.9 with the following commands:

curl -O ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.9.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf ruby-1.9.0.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.9.0
/configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-pthread
--with-readline-dir=/usr/local --enable-shared
make
sudo make install

Any ideas how I can get back to the version that came with Leopard?
Thanks, much...

 

[BearXu]

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I am curious about if the TimeMachine is useful in this occasion or not?

 

[Daniel Waite]

I am curious about if the TimeMachine is useful in this occasion or not?

I don't have it turned on (because I have no backup device) but I don't
think so. I *think* it works similarly to Spotlight in Tiger -- it only
searches your home directory and up.

If anyone's actually used Time Machine and knows for sure, feel free to
chime in.

 

[Daniel Waite]

I'm sorry. I didn't look before leaping, installed 1.9 on Leopard, and
now my all my Rails apps are hosed.

I installed 1.9 with the following commands:

curl -O ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.9.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf ruby-1.9.0.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.9.0
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-pthread
--with-readline-dir=/usr/local --enable-shared
make
sudo make install

I fixed it.

1. Hop into /usr/local/bin and delete everything there.
2. Follow the steps on the Hive Logic guide for installing Ruby and Ruby
gems.

I had to reinstall Rails, too. I'm guessing it's a path issue between
Leopard's native Ruby install and the stuff on Hive Logic.

Hive Logic link:
http://hivelogic.com/articles/ruby-rails-mongrel-mysql-osx/

 

[Benjamin Reed]

I don't have it turned on (because I have no backup device) but I don't
think so. I *think* it works similarly to Spotlight in Tiger -- it only
searches your home directory and up.

Time Machine makes an exact duplicate of your entire drive (minus any
directories you exclude).

In fact, restoring from Time Machine was *too* exact for me; I had
formatted my drive as Case-Sensitive HFS+, which it turns out is not
compatible with Photoshop. I tried reformatting my drive as
Case-Insensitive HFS+ and then restoring from Time Machine, and the
Time Machine restore reformatted it as Case-Sensitive again.

 

[James Gray]

I don't have it turned on (because I have no backup device) but I
don't
think so. I *think* it works similarly to Spotlight in Tiger -- it
only
searches your home directory and up.

If anyone's actually used Time Machine and knows for sure, feel free
to
chime in.

Not true. It handles your entire hard drive.

I would say you just found a great reason to splurge on the external
drive and get it turned on.

James Edward Gray II

 

[James Gray]

I fixed it.

1. Hop into /usr/local/bin and delete everything there.
2. Follow the steps on the Hive Logic guide for installing Ruby and
Ruby
gems.

I had to reinstall Rails, too. I'm guessing it's a path issue between
Leopard's native Ruby install and the stuff on Hive Logic.

Hive Logic link:
http://hivelogic.com/articles/ruby-rails-mongrel-mysql-osx/

Hive Logic has you install Ruby in /usr/local/bin while Apple's
default Ruby lives in /usr/bin. All you need to do is adjust your
path so /usr/bin will be found first again.

James Edward Gray II

 

[Daniel Waite]

Not true. It handles your entire hard drive.

I would say you just found a great reason to splurge on the external
drive and get it turned on.

James Edward Gray II

That's awesome! Sounds like I have found a reason. Time Machine:
Subversion your life!

And thanks for the tip about where Ruby lives on Leopard. I appreciate
it.

 

[Daniel Waite]

Time Machine makes an exact duplicate of your entire drive (minus any
directories you exclude).

In fact, restoring from Time Machine was *too* exact for me; I had
formatted my drive as Case-Sensitive HFS+, which it turns out is not
compatible with Photoshop. I tried reformatting my drive as
Case-Insensitive HFS+ and then restoring from Time Machine, and the
Time Machine restore reformatted it as Case-Sensitive again.

Wow.

Really, that's all I can say: wow. That's awesome. I'm definitely
getting an external drive then.

 

[BearXu]

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I still think that TimeMachine can recover the Ruby Folder.I have no idea if
the user/bin is a folder in the Finder.
Anyway, I don't have a Mac and I hope that I can buy one in 2008.
So if not, I wish Apple can add this to the MacOs then the coders will be
happy!