Comments on: ★ Installing Ruby Enterprise Edition and Passenger Phusion on Mac OS X Leopard

By: mike

mike — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:55:55 +0000

How about this instead of all those hard-to maintain aliases:

# sudo -i
# echo ‘export PATH=/opt/ruby-enterprise-/bin:$PATH’ >> /etc/profile
# logout
# source /etc/profile
# ruby –version

By: Corey M

Corey M — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:46:24 +0000

Instead of aliasing the EE binaries why not mv the old ones out of the way:

sudo mv /usr/bin/ruby /usr/bin/ruby.old
sudo ln -s /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/bin/ruby /usr/bin/ruby
#repeat for rake, gem and irb

By: gbenedict

gbenedict — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:33:55 +0000

I actually want both versions, with the default left in place. I prefer to run the app I’m working on using the version we use in production.

I’ve updated the post to include alias commands that make it easy to do. That path issue was a huge pain!

By: sksizer

sksizer — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:49:27 +0000

Thanks for the concise tutorial – it’s always nice to see it all packaged together coherently. One thing I was wondering though would it make more sense to change PATH variables and use the enterprise ruby install for your system ruby?