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List:       macports-users
Subject:    How to get a developers' package for Ruby
From:       Ian Wadham <iandw.au () gmail ! com>
Date:       2021-09-22 4:49:10
Message-ID: 9250D70E-F883-466B-9919-2728FC877F2F () gmail ! com
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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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