mac help with rubygems

[Andy Koch]

Hi,

I'm trying to expand my horizons by learning to do some dev work on an
iMac that I inherited from a co-worker.

My understanding of Mac OS is fairly described as infantile; I think of
Mac OS as a really pretty version of Linux.

Now to my point...

I'm having some trouble with the FireRuby gem. It appears to install,
but running it; well here is the output...

hst-27-241:~ $ gem update fireruby
Updating installed gems...
Need to update 1 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org

 

[Lyle Johnson]

I'm having some trouble with the FireRuby gem. It appears to install,
but running it; well here is the output...

<snip>

I am not at all familiar with the "fireruby" project, but I can say
that if you try to install a gem that was intended for the
"i586-linux" platform on your Mac OS X box, it's just not going to
work.

Based on the output of "gem update" that you included, it looks like
there in fact isn't a Mac-specific gem for fireruby. There may be
other options available to you for using that software on your Mac,
however; you'll just need to ask the fireruby developer(s) what's up.

Hope this helps,

Lyle

 

[John Joyce]

Hi,

I'm trying to expand my horizons by learning to do some dev work on
an iMac that I inherited from a co-worker.

My understanding of Mac OS is fairly described as infantile; I
think of Mac OS as a really pretty version of Linux.

Now to my point...

I'm having some trouble with the FireRuby gem. It appears to
install, but running it; well here is the output...

hst-27-241:~ $ gem update fireruby
Updating installed gems...
Need to update 1 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org
.
complete
Attempting remote update of fireruby
Select which gem to install for your platform (powerpc-darwin7.9.0)
1. fireruby 0.4.1 (i586-linux)
2. fireruby 0.4.1 (mswin32)
3. fireruby 0.4.0 (mswin32)
4. fireruby 0.4.0 (i586-linux)
5. Skip this gem
6. Cancel installation

1

Successfully installed fireruby-0.4.1-i586-linux
Installing ri documentation for fireruby-0.4.1-i586-linux...
Installing RDoc documentation for fireruby-0.4.1-i586-linux...
Gems: [fireruby] updated
hst-27-241:~ $ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require 'fireruby'
LoadError: no such file to load -- fr_lib
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/
custom_require.rb:32:in `gem_original_require'
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/
custom_require.rb:32:in `require'
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fireruby-0.4.1-i586-
linux/lib/fireruby.rb:21
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/
custom_require.rb:32:in `gem_original_require'
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/
custom_require.rb:32:in require'
from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0>

...

thus I interpret this to mean fr_lib.so file not found

I've also installed Firebird 1.5.x for good measure.

and now I wallow in Maconfusion,

any help appreciated

regards,

Maybe this page can help:

http://fireruby.rubyforge.org/

According to this it should support OS X. However I see you're
running PPC not Intel Mac, that means an extension written in C will
have to be recompiled. Endian issues.

 

[Amiel Martin]

Hi,

I'm trying to expand my horizons by learning to do some dev work on an
iMac that I inherited from a co-worker.

My understanding of Mac OS is fairly described as infantile; I think of
Mac OS as a really pretty version of Linux.

Now to my point...

I'm having some trouble with the FireRuby gem. It appears to install,
but running it; well here is the output...

...
thus I interpret this to mean fr_lib.so file not found

I've also installed Firebird 1.5.x for good measure.

and now I wallow in Maconfusion,

any help appreciated

regards,

Hi, I just recently discovered the same problem, not sure if you've
figured it out by now (looks like your post was a while ago...).
I don't know why rubygems did not find the darwin version because if I
go to rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=596&release_id=3732
the darwin gem is right there, just install with
sudo gem install /path/to/fireruby_0.4.1_powerpc_darwin.gem
-amiel