Installing Ruby from source on OSX

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I've become a die-hard Ruby fan in the past few months. I'm currently
using 1.8.5 on my work PC and want to upgrade on my mac at home, which
is currently running 1.8.2. It seems the neither Fink nor Darwinports
has 1.8.5 available so I'd like to install from source, but I've never
done this before.

Can anyone offer help (like step by step) to a total newbie when it
comes to installing from source?

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./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ruby-1.85 && make && sudo make install

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On 5-Oct-06, at 5:30 PM, Drew Olson wrote:

I've become a die-hard Ruby fan in the past few months. I'm currently
using 1.8.5 on my work PC and want to upgrade on my mac at home, which
is currently running 1.8.2. It seems the neither Fink nor Darwinports
has 1.8.5 available so I'd like to install from source, but I've never
done this before.

Can anyone offer help (like step by step) to a total newbie when it
comes to installing from source?

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Drew Olson wrote:

I've become a die-hard Ruby fan in the past few months. I'm currently using 1.8.5 on my work PC and want to upgrade on my mac at home, which is currently running 1.8.2. It seems the neither Fink nor Darwinports has 1.8.5 available so I'd like to install from source, but I've never done this before.

I'm running off DarwinPorta (MacPorts) and it is already 1.8.5. Make sure your ports are up-to-date. (port selfupdate)

Nutters-Computer:~/Documents/workspace/jruby headius$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i686-darwin8.7.1]

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this should be able to get you up and running.

just follow the instructions for installing ruby.

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On 10/5/06, Drew Olson <olsonas@gmail.com> wrote:

I've become a die-hard Ruby fan in the past few months. I'm currently
using 1.8.5 on my work PC and want to upgrade on my mac at home, which
is currently running 1.8.2. It seems the neither Fink nor Darwinports
has 1.8.5 available so I'd like to install from source, but I've never
done this before.

Can anyone offer help (like step by step) to a total newbie when it
comes to installing from source?

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Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/\.

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Drew,

I've become a die-hard Ruby fan in the past few months. I'm currently
using 1.8.5 on my work PC and want to upgrade on my mac at home, which
is currently running 1.8.2. It seems the neither Fink nor Darwinports
has 1.8.5 available so I'd like to install from source, but I've never
done this before.

Can anyone offer help (like step by step) to a total newbie when it
comes to installing from source?

I followed the instructions at Hivelogic[1]. I ran into one problem, but
solved that in the comments at my blog[2]. Other URLs that may help or point
to common errors are included afterwards [3, 4]

1:
<http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger&gt;
2:
<Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on Tiger | NSLog();
_on_tiger.php>

3:
<http://www.nabble.com/Ruby-1.8.4-Mac-OS-X-readline-problems-t801880.html&gt;
4: <http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/83481&gt;

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"Drew Olson" <olsonas@gmail.com> wrote on 10/5/06 7:30 pm:

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Curtis Schofield wrote:

/configure --prefix=/usr/local/ruby-1.85 && make && sudo make install

Is --enable-install-doc on by default now?

Later,

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I have no idea.

Neither do i know what sort of options they want

./configure --help

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Curtis Schofield wrote:

/configure --prefix=/usr/local/ruby-1.85 && make && sudo make install

Is --enable-install-doc on by default now?

Later,
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Bil Kleb
http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov