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Mavericks ships with 2.0.0

tbrock 13y ago
Yup it's a shame an operating system released as early as this year (mountain lion) came with 1.8.7 because it will be around for quite a while. We recently had to make the difficult decision to continue support of it in a new release because of CentOS, Mountain Lion etc... At least 2.0.0p195 is indeed in Mavericks.
- ihuman 13y ago
  Are there people that do programming on macs not use tools like macports or homebrew?
  - tbrock 13y ago
    You are right, I'm pretty sure everyone who is a professional programmer uses homebrew, it's amazing. However, coding to 1.8.7 lets those who aren't hardcore rubyists currently enjoy a gem they may otherwise not be able to without having to deal with or even know about rvm or rbenv.
  - UNIXgod 13y ago
    There's gentoo/alt and fink which predates DarwinPorts. I'm sure there is even a pkgsrc user out there. I've occasionally used this one called make. It's sort of a meta language to homebeer. In fact it comes in two flavors pmake and gmake. =P
    - X-Istence 13y ago
      You forgot bsdmake ... which up until OS X ML was still available on OS X.
      - UNIXgod 13y ago
        I didn't forget it. That is pmake my friend =)
sergiotapia 13y ago
No more RVM! Fantastic news!
- dschuler 13y ago
  I like RVM - and I donated $5 to the maintainer. I guess it's better to not always need it, but it's saved me a lot of time.
  - sergiotapia 13y ago
    I agree, RVM is a fantastic tool and a god send. Tremendous job by the creator. I just always felt that it was 'odd' to have to install N version of Ruby just to work on a particular project.
    - regularfry 13y ago
      RVM is a very impressive collection of monstrous hacks jammed into a kitchen-sink tool to achieve a set of ends that can be better met in other ways. It's worth learning enough about how the Ruby environment fits together to figure out how. It's great to get learners off the ground (assuming it works first time), but if you're doing ruby seriously then I reckon part of your education should be how to get off it as soon as possible.
- charliesome 13y ago
  Please don't let that tempt you to use system Ruby. You should always build your own, especially on a system like OS X. System Ruby is not there for you, it's there for the system to make use of (and yes, OS X does ship with quite a few Ruby scripts and a couple of Rails applications). Apple makes no guarantees of keeping this Ruby up to date.
  - jrochkind1 13y ago
    What are the Rails applications OSX ships with? I have never heard of or noticed this before.

Yup it's a shame an operating system released as early as this year (mountain lion) came with 1.8.7 because it will be around for quite a while. We recently had to make the difficult decision to continue support of it in a new release because of CentOS, Mountain Lion etc... At least 2.0.0p195 is indeed in Mavericks.

ihuman 13y ago
Are there people that do programming on macs not use tools like macports or homebrew?
- tbrock 13y ago
  You are right, I'm pretty sure everyone who is a professional programmer uses homebrew, it's amazing. However, coding to 1.8.7 lets those who aren't hardcore rubyists currently enjoy a gem they may otherwise not be able to without having to deal with or even know about rvm or rbenv.
- UNIXgod 13y ago
  There's gentoo/alt and fink which predates DarwinPorts. I'm sure there is even a pkgsrc user out there. I've occasionally used this one called make. It's sort of a meta language to homebeer. In fact it comes in two flavors pmake and gmake. =P
  - X-Istence 13y ago
    You forgot bsdmake ... which up until OS X ML was still available on OS X.
    - UNIXgod 13y ago
      I didn't forget it. That is pmake my friend =)

sergiotapia 13y ago

No more RVM! Fantastic news!

dschuler 13y ago
I like RVM - and I donated $5 to the maintainer. I guess it's better to not always need it, but it's saved me a lot of time.
- sergiotapia 13y ago
  I agree, RVM is a fantastic tool and a god send. Tremendous job by the creator. I just always felt that it was 'odd' to have to install N version of Ruby just to work on a particular project.
  - regularfry 13y ago
    RVM is a very impressive collection of monstrous hacks jammed into a kitchen-sink tool to achieve a set of ends that can be better met in other ways. It's worth learning enough about how the Ruby environment fits together to figure out how. It's great to get learners off the ground (assuming it works first time), but if you're doing ruby seriously then I reckon part of your education should be how to get off it as soon as possible.
charliesome 13y ago
Please don't let that tempt you to use system Ruby. You should always build your own, especially on a system like OS X. System Ruby is not there for you, it's there for the system to make use of (and yes, OS X does ship with quite a few Ruby scripts and a couple of Rails applications). Apple makes no guarantees of keeping this Ruby up to date.
- jrochkind1 13y ago
  What are the Rails applications OSX ships with? I have never heard of or noticed this before.