Comments on: Installing Ruby on Rails on Mac OS 10.5 or patching Dan Benjamin’s guide

By: Laurence Peter Brown

Laurence Peter Brown — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:12:28 +0000

I’m having trouble with the very first step of Dan’s instructions.

Last login: Sat Sep 20 02:03:10 on ttys000
laurence-browns-macbook:~ LPB$ wrangler ~/.bash_login
-bash: wrangler: command not found
laurence-browns-macbook:~ LPB$

By: Sivaraman

Sivaraman — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:14:10 +0000

Thanks. This was super smooth & straightforward. It was very helpful

By: BogoJoker » Installing Ruby 1.8.7 on Mac OS X 10.5.3

BogoJoker » Installing Ruby 1.8.7 on Mac OS X 10.5.3 — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:37:09 +0000

[...] 5.2 at the time of writing) at GNU.org. You may have to apply the following patch. Thanks to Michael Biven for showing a nice simple way to do this from the command [...]

By: BillB

BillB — Mon, 26 May 2008 06:05:05 +0000

Thanks so much for tracking down these loose ends. My IRB is back!

By: Michael Jimenez

Michael Jimenez — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:16:08 +0000

Firstly, a big thank you to Michael Biven for taking the time to share this solution to the installation of Rails et.al and of course many kudos to Dan Benjamin for his generous dedication to benefit the open source aficionados, especially for novices like me.

I had some trouble with one of the http://chopine.be/lrz/ruby-osx-patches/etc-irbrc.diff | patch -p0 patch and I’m wondering if RYAN RICKERTS could please explain how he copied the text and how he saved it. This is the only thing that did not work for me.

Notwithstanding my inability to patch that one file, I proceeded to make and install the Ruby 1.8.6 application. I wonder how critical that patch will be and what could happen if it ’s never corrected and “re-maked”. Is it important to recompile Ruby once I manage to get that file properly patched?

Any suggestions or alternatives would be very much appreciated!

By: Ryan Rickerts

Ryan Rickerts — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:29:34 +0000

These instructions are still saving people’s irb skin, BTW! I upgraded my /usr/local/ ruby to 1.8.6-p114, and I did apparently have to apply the readline patches, as well as all of Laurent Sansonetti’s patches.

However, curl was just returning html 404s which of course reported garbage input when piped to the patch command. So I open all the diff files (mate *.diff), followed the links manually in my browser, copied and pasted the diff text over, and applied all the patches.

I got my IRB back! Thanks a ton.

Of course, require ‘osx/cocoa’ still doesn’t work, but I guess that’s another adventure!

By: Asa

Asa — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:55:55 +0000

Thanks for posting this! This saved me from ruby/readline hell.

By: michaelb

michaelb — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:04:31 +0000

Molly

Your welcome and that domain (chopine.be) appears to be back up now.

By: Molly

Molly — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:55:42 +0000

Thank you so much for this!

Caveat–I don’t seem to be able to access chopine.be . Is anyone else seeing this, and if so, are there any mirrors where I can find the patches in question?

By: Jordan Glasner

Jordan Glasner — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:34:53 +0000

Thank you. You just ended a two day hair pulling session now that IRB works again!

I’m sending you a bottle of bourbon.