Ruby 1.9.3 via RVM on Mac OSX Lion: Success Story

Re:Ruby 1.9.3 via RVM on Mac OSX Lion: Success Story by bcrescimanno on Monday February 13, 2012 @11:57AM (#3586264)

I was really hoping this was someone talking about making Ruby 1.9.3 compile with llvm-gcc. At home, I'm running ruby compiled with clang and I've noticed the occasional hiccup with some gems. But, unlike the author, I do use software installed with XCode (iOS dev kit) so uninstalling XCode isn't really an option.

For what it's worth, there are a ton of recommendations to do this same thing out there--and for many people it's just not a viable option. This isn't a success story so much as it's using a workaround. Not being part of either the Ruby or Apple dev teams, I won't say whose side this is on to fix: only that it needs to be fixed.

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Re:Ruby 1.9.3 via RVM on Mac OSX Lion: Success Story by Argorak on Monday February 13, 2012 @03:15PM (#3587158)

For what its worth, there is a 'semi-official' stance of the Ruby team on clang:

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5883

In short: We'd like to support it, but sometimes clang still breaks. So there is no support.

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Re:Ruby 1.9.3 via RVM on Mac OSX Lion: Success Story by mariusbutuc on Monday February 13, 2012 @12:53PM (#3586556)

The "success story" works just as fine without uninstalling Xcode: that's just "the bonus" - you can uninstall it if you don't use it for anything else.

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