Comments on: Annoying bug with Rails on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

By: Aaron B. Russell

Aaron B. Russell — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:45:50 +0000

Valid points, and I’m hoping it’s not deliberate, but either way it’s annoying, heh. If other OSes that bundle Rails themselves (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, etc) can supply un-tampered packages, surely Apple can? It should be portable out of the box like it is elsewhere.

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:41:17 +0000

Looks like they are targeting a particular version of Ruby in the path which is sensible enough, I’d attribute it to a (unwanted) feature rather than a bug or maliciousness.

By: Adrian O'Connor

Adrian O'Connor — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:01:42 +0000

While I see your point, I’m not sure it’s worth worrying about. I’d even go so far as to say it might actually be a good thing. I think Apple’s reasoning behind using the full system path is because a replacement ruby install (from fink, for example) would almost certainly replace the symbolic link and that would kill your application, which would be far worse.

Also, people moving their application to Linux will typically know that they need to check the first line of a cgi script to make sure the path is correct.

By: jon

jon — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:14:19 +0000

I don’t understand what the fuss is about.
so you recompile it to run under linux like you would if you wrote it in C, and the compiler takes care of the difference between osx/bsd/linux/solaris whatever so you don’t have to.
What am i missing here?