I’ve had a couple of situations recently where I’ve been talking to
someone about Ruby’s adoption in the US:
I’m talking to a publisher about a Ruby title and the publisher
(understandably) is wary about doing another Ruby book right now (and this
wouldn’t be a general-purpose title).
I was talking to a owner of a local training company that seems to be
open to the idea of doing a Ruby class, but again, he’s not sure if it
makes sense economically right now. He has a general sense that Ruby is
making inroads, but he wants more concrete data…
Now in both cases the most tangable data point I could come up with was
that Ruby is included in MacOSX 10.2 (jaguar) - both of them seemed to be
impressed by this factoid - but of course they still want more info.
Several months back (maybe a year or so ago now) there were some postings
here about how Apple is interested in Ruby as a potential alternative to
AppleScript for their ‘standard’ scripting language. Can anyone provide
an ‘inside’ look into what might be going on there?
Phil
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"Or perhaps the truth is less interesting than the facts?"
Amy Weiss (accusing theregister.co.uk of engaging in ‘tabloid journalism’)
Senior VP, Communications
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FYI: I have heard this too, but I just installed 10.2.3 about 2am
this morning and after installing the developer tools, I could not
find ruby anywhere. It may be that it just comes with the new macs.
However, I installed Ruby 1.8.0 and noticed that I was not required
to configure it with the usual --enable-shared option.
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On Sunday, 26 January 2003 at 10:52:08 +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:
Now in both cases the most tangable data point I could come up with was
that Ruby is included in MacOSX 10.2 (jaguar) - both of them seemed to be
impressed by this factoid - but of course they still want more info.
–
Jim Freeze
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up
in the morning, and does not stop until you get to school.
On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 07:04 PM, Jim Freeze wrote:
FYI: I have heard this too, but I just installed 10.2.3 about 2am
this morning and after installing the developer tools, I could not
find ruby anywhere.
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think
about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the
solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-R. Buckminster Fuller, engineer, designer, and architect (1895-1983)
Now in both cases the most tangable data point I could come up with was
that Ruby is included in MacOSX 10.2 (jaguar) - both of them seemed to be
impressed by this factoid - but of course they still want more info.
FYI: I have heard this too, but I just installed 10.2.3 about 2am
this morning and after installing the developer tools, I could not
find ruby anywhere. It may be that it just comes with the new macs.
I don’t think that’s true. It’s on my machine in /usr/bin/ruby,
/usr/lib/ruby.
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At 11:04 +0900 1/26/03, Jim Freeze wrote:
On Sunday, 26 January 2003 at 10:52:08 +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:
However, I installed Ruby 1.8.0 and noticed that I was not required
to configure it with the usual --enable-shared option.
–
Jim Freeze
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up
in the morning, and does not stop until you get to school.
Well, whad’ya know. There it is.
/usr/bin/ruby -v
ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [powerpc-darwin6.0]
To bad it wasn’t in my path.
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On Sunday, 26 January 2003 at 11:35:35 +0900, Chris Gehlker wrote:
On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 07:04 PM, Jim Freeze wrote:
FYI: I have heard this too, but I just installed 10.2.3 about 2am
this morning and after installing the developer tools, I could not
find ruby anywhere.
Did you look at /usr/bin/ruby?
–
Jim Freeze
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people
are right more than half of the time.
– E. B. White
On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 08:05 PM, Jim Freeze wrote:
Well, whad’ya know. There it is.
/usr/bin/ruby -v
ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [powerpc-darwin6.0]
To bad it wasn’t in my path.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the
most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
-Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)
It gives:
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/Users/
chrisg/bin
^Fink did this…^…This was original…^Apple
X11…^My own .tcshrc file.
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On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 09:02 PM, Jim Freeze wrote:
On Sunday, 26 January 2003 at 12:35:02 +0900, Chris Gehlker wrote:
On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 08:05 PM, Jim Freeze wrote:
Well, whad’ya know. There it is.
/usr/bin/ruby -v
ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [powerpc-darwin6.0]
To bad it wasn’t in my path.
Are you kidding? It was in mine.
I may have tweaked mine. What does
echo $PATH
give you? Have you installed Fink?
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the
most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
-Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)
