ruby_select and rvm

[Joshua Root]

On 2010-5-20 04:37 , David Baumgold wrote:
> Yeah, I've actually created a few Gem portfiles, myself. However, the
> Ruby PortGroup seems to assume that you are installing for Ruby 1.8,
> and I'm going to need some of the Gems for Ruby 1.9 --

See the optional "implementation" parameter to ruby.setup.

> The issue is that the default Macports ruby is still Ruby 1.8:
> when I run "irb" it loads up 1.8, and I have to run "irb1.9" to load
> up 1.9. Macports can install multiple versions of Python
> simultaneously, and which version is called when you run "python" at
> the terminal is controlled by the python_select port.

It shouldn't be too hard to do this in much the same way using the
select portgroup. The binaries for ruby 1.8 would of course need to be
renamed.

- Josh