Rails with macports or brew

Rails
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Been having some trouble with brew and getting all things to work. I had
a working environment with macports. But when updating to Rails 3 I
decided to try homebrew. Will brew Imagemagick install all dependencies?
E g I think I miss Freetype and I can’t find that as brew.

Btw, what’s your experience with brew vs macports?

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Paul B. wrote in post #968090:

Been having some trouble with brew and getting all things to work. I had
a working environment with macports. But when updating to Rails 3 I
decided to try homebrew. Will brew Imagemagick install all dependencies?
E g I think I miss Freetype and I can’t find that as brew.

Btw, what’s your experience with brew vs macports?

I much prefer Homebrew, though I had to play around a little with the
provided .profile commands to get Brewbygems to work properly. Homebrew
uses /usr/local properly, whereas Macports installs a lot of redundant
crap that duplicates what’s already there.

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

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Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote in post #968101:

I much prefer Homebrew, though I had to play around a little with the
provided .profile commands to get Brewbygems to work properly. Homebrew
uses /usr/local properly, whereas Macports installs a lot of redundant
crap that duplicates what’s already there.

What about Freetype? Is there a brew for that? And other dependencies
that’s necessary for ImageMagick/RMagick.

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Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote in post #968163:

I have no idea. I don’t use ImageMagick or Freetype. Why don’t you
check the Homebrew website and Git repository?

I did. Why do you think I ask here for?

Listen Marnen, if you don’t have answers or helpful suggestions for
people using this forum I suggest that you don’t say anything. Just a
friendly hint. :slight_smile:

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Paul B. wrote in post #968159:

Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote in post #968101:

I much prefer Homebrew, though I had to play around a little with the
provided .profile commands to get Brewbygems to work properly. Homebrew
uses /usr/local properly, whereas Macports installs a lot of redundant
crap that duplicates what’s already there.

What about Freetype? Is there a brew for that? And other dependencies
that’s necessary for ImageMagick/RMagick.

I have no idea. I don’t use ImageMagick or Freetype. Why don’t you
check the Homebrew website and Git repository?

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

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Paul B. wrote in post #968090:

Been having some trouble with brew and getting all things to work. I had
a working environment with macports. But when updating to Rails 3 I
decided to try homebrew. Will brew Imagemagick install all dependencies?
E g I think I miss Freetype and I can’t find that as brew.

I don’t see Freetype in the current release of Homebrew, but I did find
a fork where someone has created a formula for it.

Btw, what’s your experience with brew vs macports?

I really love the way Homebrew works compared to macport. I am most
definitely NOT a fan of macports. The tradeoff is that Homebrew is still
fairly new and doesn’t yet support everything that is available in
macports. However, there seems to be a fairly active community around
Homebrew that is filling in the gaps.

For example:

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Paul B. wrote in post #968176:

Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote in post #968163:

I have no idea. I don’t use ImageMagick or Freetype. Why don’t you
check the Homebrew website and Git repository?

I did.

I can’t read your mind. If you looked and didn’t find the answer, it
would have been helpful to say so – I wouldn’t have responded in the
same way, and we would have wasted less time.

In general, you will get better help if you say what you already tried.

Why do you think I ask here for?

Because you didn’t know the answer.

Listen Marnen, if you don’t have answers or helpful suggestions for
people using this forum I suggest that you don’t say anything.

I don’t say anything under those circumstances.

Just a
friendly hint. :slight_smile:

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

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Robert W. wrote in post #968307:

Paul B. wrote in post #968090:

I don’t see Freetype in the current release of Homebrew, but I did find
a fork where someone has created a formula for it.

I installed it from source. :slight_smile:

I really love the way Homebrew works compared to macport. I am most
definitely NOT a fan of macports. The tradeoff is that Homebrew is still
fairly new and doesn’t yet support everything that is available in
macports. However, there seems to be a fairly active community around
Homebrew that is filling in the gaps.

I also like it. Had a thought of going back to ports but decided to stay
with brew and if I miss something I’ll install it myself.

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On Dec 14, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Robert W. wrote:

I really love the way Homebrew works compared to macport. I am most
definitely NOT a fan of macports. The tradeoff is that Homebrew is
still
fairly new and doesn’t yet support everything that is available in
macports. However, there seems to be a fairly active community around
Homebrew that is filling in the gaps.

The big argument for using homebrew is that while they may not have
every little thing, what they do have is usually very very recent.
Compare and contrast with ports, which will often be quite a few
versions old, and in some cases that may mean the difference between a
feature “just working” and failing catastrophically.

Walter

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Walter D. wrote in post #968316:

The big argument for using homebrew is that while they may not have
every little thing, what they do have is usually very very recent.
Compare and contrast with ports, which will often be quite a few
versions old, and in some cases that may mean the difference between a
feature “just working” and failing catastrophically.

Also with over 1400 forks of Hombrew if your favorite package isn’t
included in the official Homebrew it’s worth searching the fork tree to
see if someone has already created the formula you’re looking for.

Just be sure to read the formula and check the source of the package to
make sure something isn’t playing nasty tricks on you. So be safe if you
decide to use another fork by reading the code yourself, as is good
practice with anything you’re installing from open source.

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Walter D. wrote in post #968316:

On Dec 14, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Robert W. wrote:

The big argument for using homebrew is that while they may not have
every little thing, what they do have is usually very very recent.
Compare and contrast with ports, which will often be quite a few
versions old, and in some cases that may mean the difference between a
feature “just working” and failing catastrophically.

Walter

That’s what I discovered and the initial reason for trying homebrew.