Re: [Mac-emacs-users] Running Ruby interpreter in subshell (OS X)

[Andrew C. <ak...@sh...>]

Hi Brian,

> I can't seem to run the Ruby interpreter as a subshell on OS
> X. (Ruby is a language kind of like Python.)
> 
> Ruby comes with some .el files that define M-x run-ruby (and all the
> usual sub-interpreter commands you'd expect). It works as expected
> with the dumb-terminal version of emacs that comes with OS X. M-x
> run-ruby doesn't work with the flashier emacs I downloaded (details
> below). Other kinds of subshells work.
> 
> The symptom is that when I M-x run-ruby, I get an empty buffer,
> rather than a prompt.  [...]

Could you please try setting the PATH environment variable as
suggested by others on the mailing list about a week ago for a similar
question on Python?  This is necessary since an application started
from the Finder does not get the same environment variables set when
started from a shell.  I suppose you may also need to set certain Lisp
variables in the Ruby package.

> Specifics: This report is for the precompiled binary I got from
> <http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~akochoi/emacs/21.1/emacs-21.1-mac-bin.smi.bin>

This is probably incorrect because that was a binary for OS classic.

> "GNU Emacs 21.1.30.3 (powerpc-apple-darwin5.2.2) of 2002-02-10 on
> localhost"
> [...]

Andrew.