stephencelis

The definitive Leopard Ruby build

, Chicago

Dan Benjamin has provided comprehensive compilation instructions to the Mac community for awhile now, but the latest one just doesn’t quite do it. If we want a build that’s as solid as Leopard’s built-in Ruby, we need to patch it for RubyCocoa:

You should be good to go.

If things hiccup on Readline…

…you’ll need Readline in your local path. To install it:

Change the Ruby configuration line appropriately:

Finally, RubyCocoa

To get RubyCocoa up and running again, just check out the source, and install:

And finally, make sure it all worked:

% irb
>> require "rubycocoa"
=> true

Phew! We can use autotest with Growl again!

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