Comments on: How to fix that Rubygems mess on Leopard

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:30:28 +0000

hey, I followed your guide, and I got gems working great, but now when I write things in my IDE RadRails or NetBeans, it wont find any VM or anything, so, its greatly frustrating me, and I have installed it time and time again and am getting kinda frustrated with it all. Any help or suggestions on what to do?

By: Max Howell

Max Howell — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:13:11 +0000

Not that I dislike MacPorts I should add. I have used it for years.

By: Max Howell

Max Howell — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:09:07 +0000

It would be a mistake for Apple to bundle MacPorts. It is self contained system. It duplicates the entire Unix library stack. Two copies of libz, libm, libcrypto etc. on every Mac would be stupid.

And anyway it wouldn’t achieve anything towards helping with your problem if they did. The solution to your problem is to fix rubygems on os x, not install and entirely different packaging system to install another packaging system–that’s crazy.

Your attack makes no sense either. Yes Apple fucked up somehow and updating ruby gems doesn’t work, but all they did was bundle RubyGems (badly) with OS X, there was no “wheel” that got “reinvented”. If anything RubyGems is reinventing the wheel by making yet another bloody packaging system.

By: Ryan JM

Ryan JM — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:35:34 +0000

THANK YOU!! That helped a lot. Just follow the instructions and got everything to work. Amazing.

By: Rob Olson

Rob Olson — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:51:58 +0000

If you use MacVim you should not remove the OS X bundled Ruby framework (/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/). Removing it will break MacVim.

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By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:12:17 +0000

Just a big thanks, after many wasted hours trying to fix the mess.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:29:46 +0000

Fantastic tutorial. Thank you!

By: Stephan

Stephan — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:24:42 +0000

Hi,

lile macournoyer (see above) TextMate stopped working:
When trying to run a Ruby script I bump into this:/tmp/temp_textmate.2iRNDE: line 6: : command not found

I guess it has to do with how TextMate finds the Ruby to run.
Any hint how to fix this is greatly appreciated.

Other than this: Thanks & works really fine.

By: Anon Ymous

Anon Ymous — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:22:31 +0000

Thanks!