# Tk on Snow Leopard **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 11, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tk-on-snow-leopard/177094 "2009-10-11T15:34:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dudebot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@Dudebot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dudebot)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tk-on-snow-leopard/177094/1 "2009-10-11T15:34:16Z")
Sorry about posting an OS specific question here, but the Apple support discussion groups seem to think this is a problem with Tk bindings in Ruby, not with Snow Leopard. Makes no sense to me, but whatever. I’ve used Tk as my go-to GUI for Ruby for years, and love it. In Leopard (10.5) Tk bindings worked, in Snow Leopard (10.6) I get this error if I try to run a script with “require tk” LoadError: no such file to load — tk Does anyone know a good workaround? Has anyone had success getting tk bindings to work in 10.6, e.g. with MacPorts? I haven’t tried that approach–I wanted to find out others experience before I went through that. Frankly, I wish that I could replace MacOS with Linux on this hardware (I mean replace, not run a vm) but I digress. TIA, Craig ---
**Author:** ![Dudebot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@Dudebot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dudebot)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tk-on-snow-leopard/177094/2 "2009-10-12T00:25:24Z")
On Oct 11, 2009, at 06:29 , Dudebot wrote: > Does anyone know a good workaround? Has anyone had success getting tk > bindings to work in 10.6, e.g. with MacPorts? I haven’t tried that > approach–I wanted to find out others experience before I went through > that. Sure enough, it looks like apple didn’t ship the tk extension: 511 % find /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/Current - name tk.rb 512 % The obvious workaround is to build and install your own ruby (either yourself or via macports). That requires having the developer tools installed so you have a C compiler. By default ruby will install into / usr/local/ (/opt/local if macports) and that won’t be in your path. You’ll need to either add it BEFORE /usr/bin so the stock ruby gets overridden or rename the stock ruby. ---
**Author:** ![Dudebot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@Dudebot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dudebot)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2009, 11:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tk-on-snow-leopard/177094/3 "2009-10-12T11:35:40Z")
… > Sure enough, it looks like apple didn’t ship the tk extension: > … > The obvious workaround is to build and install your own ruby > … Thanks super, Ryan. I was hoping to try to avoid that, but… 🙂 For those who are interested, the best instructions I found for installing Ruby-Tk on Snow Leopard were at Dan Benjamin’s Hivelogic site: > **[Dan Benjamin](https://danbenjamin.com)** > > Dan Benjamin's personal website. A virtual thank you to Dan 🙂 Craig