On Aug 4, 2006, at 0:36, Yvon Thoraval wrote:
> i've tried several times having the same setup for ruby from command 
> line and from XCode, and i've learned today darwinports isn't the 
> best...
>
> what kind of install would you advice ?
>
> from cvs sources ?
>
> PS : on RubyCocoa list they advice me to use dp )))

Yes, people are always telling me about the lovely powers of 
Darwinports/Fink/CVS/Gem and on and on. I don't believe them any more, 
though. (Well, RubyGems has worked reasonably well for those things 
that are available as gems.)

My current RubyCocoa (and Ruby 1.8.4) was installed by downloading a 
.tar.gz file or some such thing, and running
	./configure
	make
	make install

Whatever that's called. Is that the best way? I have no idea. But it 
did let me put things exactly where I wanted them, which for me, meant 
that all my Ruby junk is in the highly visible /Library/Ruby, not in 
/usr/local/whatever or /sw/someplace or /opt/secret/hiding/spot. 
(Although I did get to discover that some part of the RubyCocoa 
installer couldn't cope with installing from a path with spaces in it. 
That's been fixed.)

And it seems to work, which is more than I can say for 66% of my 
attempted Fink installs and 100% of my DarwinPorts attempts. I haven't 
tried any CVS-ing yet, because I'm allergic to unripe software in 
general.