On 22 Dec, 01:57, Dna Kp <dan.kl... / gmail.com> wrote: > The fink package fails as it tries to use ldconf (not a mac thing) while > the gem route fails as there appears to be no libm! Dunno why you should get that error installing the gem (sudo gem install libxml-ruby); I see libxml2 (and libm) at /usr/lib on my Tiger box and have installed the libxml gem on it in the past. Those problems aside, can I suggest trying rb-appscript instead? As well as being a better bridge than RubyOSA, it doesn't have any third- party dependencies to worry about. See my sig. for links. HTH has -- http://appscript.sourceforge.net http://rb-appscript.rubyforge.org