ruby question

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 1, 2012, at 16:16, Aljaž Srebrnič wrote:

> I was trying to craft a port for the earthquake ruby gem (a CLI for twitter), but I stumbled on some puzzling things: apparently, earthquake needs ruby 1.9, why is ruby available as ruby19 and not simply ruby (whih installs the 1.8 version)? And if we go the python way, why there's no ruby-select?

The ruby port should probably be renamed to / replaced_by ruby18.

There should probably be a ruby-select port.

The ruby portgroup would then need to be overhauled as well.

I don't think anybody's worked on the ruby ports in awhile; if you're interested you should coordinate with the ruby maintainer.


> Slightly related: I wanna install earthquake, but get the source using github. Just add both PortGroups and then ruby.setup first and then github.setup?

Yes, the github portgroup should be able to coexist with other portgroups.