I recently installed Ruby 1.8.4 on Mac OS X 10.4.7, following
the instructions in
http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger
Although irb starts up and runs OK, I am unable to get ri to work
(either within irb or as an external command).
It says:
>> ri Proc
/Users/rdm/.irbrc:2: warning:
Insecure world writable dir /Volumes,
mode 04177/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:9:in `require':
no such file to load -- stringio (LoadError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:9
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_descriptions.rb:1
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_reader.rb:1
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_driver.rb:5
from /usr/local/bin/ri:43
=> false
Ignoring the /Volumes nastygram (Hey, it's a mount point!), it
appears that a require is failing. Hmmm...
>> $:
=> ["/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8",
"/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.7.0",
"/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby",
"/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8",
"/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.7.0",
"."]
Looks pretty good; let's see if the file is there and readable:
% cd /usr/local/lib/ruby
% du -a . | grep stringio.rb
8 ./1.8/yaml/stringio.rb
16 ./gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-1.1.5/lib/action_mailer/
vendor/tmail/stringio.rb
% wc ./1.8/yaml/stringio.rb
83 175 1969 ./1.8/yaml/stringio.rb
At this point, I'm tapped out. Suggestions, anyone?
-r
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