Best way to get latest ruby on OS X?
Dennis Roberts
What is the best way to do that? fink? compile myself? Is there some
fancy DMG just waiting for me? Thanks.
Timothy Hunter
all of 5 minutes and you always know exactly what you've got. Installing
the fink infrastructure takes longer than that.
Chad Fowler
http://homepage.mac.com/discord/Ruby/
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Dennis Roberts
Eric Jacoboni
> There may well be something on fink
AFAIK, Fink version is a old one.
For Ruby on mac, go for Darwin Ports: so far, they alway tracks latest
releases.
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Sam Roberts
> Timothy Hunter <cycl...@nc.rr.com> writes:
>
> > There may well be something on fink
>
> AFAIK, Fink version is a old one.
>
> For Ruby on mac, go for Darwin Ports: so far, they alway tracks latest
> releases.
But don't support readline, which makes irb pretty painful.
Sam
Luc Heinrich
> So I just got a mac mini and want to get the latest version of ruby.
> What is the best way to do that? fink? compile myself?
Stay away from fink at all costs. Just download the source tarball and
compile it.
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On Apr 02, 2005, at 18:59, Luc Heinrich wrote:
> Stay away from fink at all costs. Just download the source tarball and
> compile it.
Alternatively, you might want to consider Gentoo's Portage:
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/macos-guide.xml
Once installed, simply type "emerge ruby".
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Eric Jacoboni
> But don't support readline, which makes irb pretty painful.
You're right (i've never noticed this pb as i don't use irb). That's
rather suprising as this port depends on readline, though.
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Sam Roberts
> Sam Roberts <srob...@uniserve.com> writes:
> > But don't support readline, which makes irb pretty painful.
>
> You're right (i've never noticed this pb as i don't use irb). That's
I find it handy, particularly because the debugger doesn't work very
well (and doesn't have readline support either).
> rather suprising as this port depends on readline, though.
making it depend on readline is just a line in the portfile.
Making ruby see that readline is there and build against it is harder.
I've killed some time trying to get it to happen, with no success, yet.
Cheers,
Sam
Eric Jacoboni
>> rather suprising as this port depends on readline, though.
>
> making it depend on readline is just a line in the portfile.
>
> Making ruby see that readline is there and build against it is harder.
Sure... But it shows there is a problem with this port. Browsing
bugzilla on Darwinports show that the maintainer is aware of it and is
working on it.
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Phil Tomson
Phil Tomson
irb works fine for me and I got Ruby1.8.2 off of darwinports.
Phil
Sam Roberts
Before I reinstall, by "works fine", you mean the arrow keys allow you
to go through the history?
Sam
Eric Jacoboni
> Before I reinstall, by "works fine", you mean the arrow keys allow you
> to go through the history?
On a pristine install of last port (1.8.2_2), arrows keys doesn't work
on my box, too.
Ollivier Robert gives me a workaround:
After install, do a "make -f build ruby", then goes to
work/ruby*/readline directory, do a "ruby extconf.rb", then "make;make
install".
This solution has solved the readline problem on my box : now, arrow
keys work with /opt/local/bin/irb.
I'm in touch with the port maintainer to find a more elegant solution.
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Sam Roberts
> Sam Roberts <srob...@uniserve.com> writes:
>
>
> > Before I reinstall, by "works fine", you mean the arrow keys allow you
> > to go through the history?
>
> On a pristine install of last port (1.8.2_2), arrows keys doesn't work
> on my box, too.
>
> Ollivier Robert gives me a workaround:
>
> After install, do a "make -f build ruby", then goes to
> work/ruby*/readline directory, do a "ruby extconf.rb", then "make;make
> install".
Yeah! That worked for me.
Mostly. "make -f build ruby" seems like a typo. But manually building
the extension was fine.
> This solution has solved the readline problem on my box : now, arrow
> keys work with /opt/local/bin/irb.
>
> I'm in touch with the port maintainer to find a more elegant solution.
I'll try and post this to ruby-core, I think there is something wrong
with the ruby build system if you can build the single extension it
works, but if you build ruby the extension doesn't get built.
Sam
Eric Jacoboni
> Yeah! That worked for me.
>
> Mostly. "make -f build ruby" seems like a typo.
Hoops, you're right : should be "port -f build ruby"...
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Phil Tomson
Sam Roberts <srob...@uniserve.com> wrote:
>Quoting pt...@aracnet.com, on Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 05:04:43AM +0900:
>> In article <2005040216...@ensemble.local>,
>> Sam Roberts <srob...@uniserve.com> wrote:
>> >Quoting ja...@neottia.net, on Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 01:34:44AM +0900:
>> >> For Ruby on mac, go for Darwin Ports: so far, they alway tracks latest
>> >> releases.
>> >
>> >But don't support readline, which makes irb pretty painful.
>> >
>>
>> irb works fine for me and I got Ruby1.8.2 off of darwinports.
>
>Before I reinstall, by "works fine", you mean the arrow keys allow you
>to go through the history?
>
Yep. I did the 1.8.2 install from darwinports about 1.5 months ago.
Phil