Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Install failing, at wit's end

[Dave H. <gr...@gr...>]

On May 25, 2005, at 8:48 AM, Mark Hubbart wrote:

> mark@eMac% l /Library/Frameworks
> ...
> drwxr-xr-x    6 mark  admin   204 May 25 00:25 Ruby.framework
> mark@eMac% ruby -v -e'puts RUBY_FRAMEWORK_VERSION'
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.0.0]
> 0.5
> mark@eMac% ls -la `where ruby`
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  65 May 25 00:42 /usr/bin/ruby -> 
> /Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/ruby

[squinting] I think this is telling me that Mark's 'ruby' command lurks 
in a framework. And that he's running Tiger. K00l.

>  It's at a point now where I'm eating my own dog food, and it's almost 
> tasty. :)

[shakes head] I am SO glad there are people out there who think that 
sort of thing is fun. :)

> Still, Dave, it would be a good idea to get used to the command-line 
> voodoo.

Aww, c'mon. I've replaced my /usr/bin/ruby with a link to 1.8.2. I've 
installed TeX, and installed fonts into it (shudder). I've redefined 
"ls -la" as "dir". I know where my mach kernel is,  my PATH, and my 
.login file. I'm *used* to command-line voodoo. I just don't *like* it. 
:) I spend way too much time trying to guess how to make the 'man' 
command cough up useful answers. [I'd love to spend a little time in a 
small room with a baseball bat and the guy who thought that making case 
significant was a good idea.]

There's a Terminal window open most of the time. But the less I have to 
use it, the happier I am, as a general rule. TextWrangler good, pico 
bad (do NOT get me started on Emacs or vi. I have not the words for my 
loathing). Webmin good, apachectl/postfix/rndc bad. (I didn't even know 
there WAS an rndc until I did 'man named' for this message. 
Are-en-dee-cee, for pete's sake???) DiskUtility fabulous, 
diskutil/pdisk/fdisk/bless/whatever frightening.

I hug my perky working (I hope!) RubyCocoa, so that now my Ruby 
programs can also eschew the command line. smilesmilesmilesmilesmile.

I am often mistaken for a programmer. I'm actually a hard-core 
applications person. I make my programs work really hard. (I've 
applescripted Freehand to load PostScript files that I'm writing to the 
drive as text. Macromedia tech support didn't even know that FreeHand 
could *be* applescripted. No, not with the UI tools, either.) I program 
only to make the applications that I need that don't yet exist. (cf. 
http://grandfenwick.net/dave/applescripts especially Sort&File, iTunes 
Voice Control, and Chatelaine. Font Undulator isn't listed there, but 
it's a drag & drop window that takes just about any random font file 
(Suitcase, LWFN, .pfb, .ttf, .bin) and hammers it into a .dfont or 
.otf.)

I need to speed up my Mail archiving application, and make a game show 
display board and a to-do list manager (and I've looked at every 
existing one I could find, and only TinderBox came close to doing what 
I needed. But it's not a to do list manager, it's a programming 
environment. So I'm using Ruby instead).