Installing rb-appscript

Using RubyGems

To install rb-appscript via RubyGems, run the following command in Terminal:

sudo gem install rb-appscript

RubyGems is included in Leopard's standard Ruby 1.8.6 installation. For other Ruby installations, you may need to install RubyGems first.

Installing the rb-appscript gem currently requires gcc, included in Apple's Developer Tools.

Existing gem-based installations can be updated as follows:

sudo gem update rb-appscript

When using the rb-appscript gem, don't forget to require rubygems before requiring appscript, otherwise the appscript gem won't load. For example:

begin; require 'rubygems'; rescue LoadError; end
require 'appscript'
...

From source

Rb-appscript file releases are available via the rb-appscript project page at RubyForge.

To install rb-appscript from source, download and unzip the .zip distribution and follow the instructions in its README file.

Installing rb-appscript from source requires gcc, included in Apple's Developer Tools.

Notes

ASDictionary is required to use rb-appscript's built-in help system.

Note: once ASDictionary is installed, you should configure its preferences to use a copy of Ruby that already has rb-appscript installed, otherwise appscript's help system won't work correctly. If you've installed a copy of rb-appscript for OS X's default Ruby installation, the interpreter path should be /usr/bin/ruby. If you've installed rb-appscript on DarwinPorts Ruby, use /opt/local/bin/ruby; and so on.

Subversion access

Rb-appscript's subversion repository can be checked out anonymously with the following command:

svn checkout http://appscript.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/appscript/rb-appscript/

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