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Attached is a simple script and associated files that will allow you to force MacPorts to install Ruby 1.8.4 instead of 1.8.5. Why they don’t support previous versions is beyond me and its by no means a trivial exercise to figure out how to do it.
Usage
$ tar jxvf macports-ruby_1.8.4.tar.bz2 $ cp -R macports-ruby_1.8.4/* /path/to/my/rails/app/script $ cd /path/to/my/rails/app $ ./script/hack_ruby_portfile.sh $ sudo port install ruby
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Sava Chankov said 7/31/07
To make it work with MacPorts 1.5, change last line of hack_ruby_portfile.sh
to
sudo rsync -vr—exclude ’.*’ ./ports/ /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports