Pedro P. Candel

Rebuild ruby readline due to Leopard Software update

Due to the recent Leopard ruby update, accents and other non ascii characters are never more available for irb. This is how to proceed to fix that:

$ locate libreadline
/usr/lib/libreadline.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.5.2.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.5.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.a
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.dylib

$ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [universal-darwin9.0]

svn co http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_6_287/ext/readline/ readline
curl http://pastie.textmate.org/pastes/168767/download | patch readline/extconf.rb

cd readline

ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" ruby extconf.rb
make
sudo make install

Leopard MySQL related gems goodies

I know I will forget this for the next time I might need it …

ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386"  gem install do_mysql  -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
sudo install_name_tool -change /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.15.dylib /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.15.dylib /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/do_mysql-0.9.11/lib/do_mysql_ext.bundle

Use the proper gem version, of course.