How to get a developers' package for Ruby

Wed Sep 22 05:05:54 UTC 2021

Hi,
You might see if Rbenv would work for you in this case.
https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv

I googled and there are folks who’ve gotten cocoapods working with rbenv installed Ruby versions.

Jose

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> On Sep 21, 2021, at 9:49 PM, Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I wish to download from the Web a package called CocoaPods, however it needs a developers’ package of Ruby to build it.
> 
> I am using MacOS Catalina 10.15.7. Apple provides Ruby in this MacOSversion, but will not allow it to be used for building non-Apple apps. They say they are phasing out the use of Ruby in MacOS and Apple Mac apps.
> 
> Googling around about this problem, all the solutions I have found recommend getting a "ruby-dev" package from Homebrew, but MacPorts, which I use a lot, recommends against mixing MacPorts and Homebrew.
> 
> Apple’s version of Ruby is ruby 2.6.3p62 (2019-04-16 revision 67580).
> 
> MacPorts has a package ruby @1.8.7-p374_12 (lang, ruby), but also packages ruby26 @2.6.8_1 (lang, ruby), ruby27 @2.7.4_1 (lang, ruby), etc. Are all of these development versions, or just runtime versions? If MacPorts has a development version of Ruby, which would be the best version to use to build CocoaPods?
> 
> Failing that, would it be safe to install Homebrew and its ruby-dev, just for building CocoaPods?
> 
> I have no intention of learning Ruby for my own development use at this stage.
> 
> Hoping someone can point me in the right direction,
> Thanks in advance,
> Ian Wadham.
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