On 30/09/2009, at 11:46 AM, Alan Harper wrote: > I also had the same issue as Dr Nic, I > don't like messing with my system ruby on OS X
I'm interested in your rationale (and others' too) on setting up ruby — I'm not sure what you mean here, since "not messing with the system ruby" is why I install a separate copy. My problem with using the system-installed ruby is that every time you "sudo gem install", you're changing the base system. There's a really good writeup in the homebrew README under "Don't sudo": http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew Briefly, there are two advantages to not sudoing for package and gem installs: - It puts commandline applications on the same footing as OS X apps, which are installed without privileges by dragging them into / Applications. - Not sudoing means you know for a fact that you're not changing the base install. You can delete /usr/local and your system is new again. I agree that macports is not the best answer, but it's always done the job for me (after a slow initial build :) ). I'm going to spend some time ASAP finishing the homebrew support in babushka, which should make the process a lot cleaner (and faster, since it links against system libraries instead of building duplicates). Homebrew has excellent support for installing multiple concurrent versions of the same package, like rubygems, which I think will come in handy when we all start using 1.9 more. There's also RVM — I'm not sure which will be a better choice for this because I haven't looked into it very far. Either way though, I think installing a separate ruby in order to leave the system untouched is the way to go. Interested to see what everyone thinks about this. "With our powers combined" and all that :) - Ben --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
