# Ruby is part of Mac OSX 10.2

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-is-part-of-mac-osx-10-2/1391>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [26 August 2002 05:56 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-is-part-of-mac-osx-10-2/1391 "2002-08-26T05:56:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Luc\_Heinrich1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Luc\_Heinrich1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Luc_Heinrich1)\
**Post date:** [26 August 2002 05:56 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-is-part-of-mac-osx-10-2/1391/1 "2002-08-26T05:56:36Z")

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Greetings,

I’ve just made a clean install of the latest MacOS X (10.2 aka Jaguar)  
and the first thing that I did was of course to check that all the  
rumors was true. So I launched a terminal, typed ‘ruby -v’ and got  
’ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [powerpc-darwin6.0]’.

So yes, my hardrocking amigos, Ruby does indeed come preinstalled with  
OSX now. Sweet. 🙂

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> –  
> Luc Heinrich - [lucsky@mac.com](mailto:lucsky@mac.com)

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**Author:** ![Dan\_Sugalski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Dan\_Sugalski](https://rubytalk.org/u/Dan_Sugalski)\
**Post date:** [26 August 2002 06:08 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-is-part-of-mac-osx-10-2/1391/2 "2002-08-26T06:08:32Z")

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As does python, too. Though the apple folks like Ruby a bit better. 🙂

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> At 2:56 PM +0900 8/26/02, Luc Heinrich wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I’ve just made a clean install of the latest MacOS X (10.2 aka  
> > Jaguar) and the first thing that I did was of course to check that  
> > all the rumors was true. So I launched a terminal, typed ‘ruby -v’  
> > and got ‘ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [powerpc-darwin6.0]’.
> > 
> > So yes, my hardrocking amigos, Ruby does indeed come preinstalled  
> > with OSX now. Sweet. 🙂
> 
> –  
> Dan
> 
> --------------------------------------“it’s like this”-------------------  
> Dan Sugalski even samurai  
> [dan@sidhe.org](mailto:dan@sidhe.org) have teddy bears and even  
> teddy bears get drunk

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**Author:** ![Chris\_Gehlker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Chris\_Gehlker](https://rubytalk.org/u/Chris_Gehlker)\
**Post date:** [26 August 2002 15:53 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-is-part-of-mac-osx-10-2/1391/3 "2002-08-26T15:53:19Z")

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Still no support for Quartz Tk/Tcl though. I did a ‘locate ruby’ and a  
lot of it is there including stuff I had a hard time building. Looks  
like they didn’t finish though.

We can always hope for software update to provide something.

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> On Sunday, August 25, 2002, at 10:56 PM, Luc Heinrich wrote:
> 
> > So yes, my hardrocking amigos, Ruby does indeed come preinstalled with  
> > OSX now. Sweet. 🙂