# What Happened to the Default Ruby Installation on Mac OS X 1

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**Created:** [April 23, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-happened-to-the-default-ruby-installation-on-mac-os-x-1/58600 "2006-04-23T21:11:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agnathan)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-happened-to-the-default-ruby-installation-on-mac-os-x-1/58600/1 "2006-04-23T21:11:58Z")

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I usually use a ruby installed through DarwinPorts, but I have some  
scripts which are hardcoded for /usr/bin/ruby.

My shell wrote:

> rubysig.h version.h  
> dl.h env.h node.h ruby.h st.h  
> $ /usr/bin/ruby -e ‘p $LOAD\_PATH’  
> ["/usr/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8", “/usr/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/  
> powerpc-darwin8.0”, “/usr/lib/ruby/site\_ruby”, “/usr/lib/ruby/1.8”,  
> “/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.0”, “.”]

If you can’t see from the listing, the standard lib is gone. Also  
gone: /usr/bin/ri and /usr/bin/irb. I haven’t messed around with the  
default installation, I suspect the update to 10.4.6 did. Can anyone  
else confirm this?

There is a 1.8/universal-darwin8.0 folder, but ruby isn’t universal.

> $ file /usr/bin/ruby  
> /usr/bin/ruby: Mach-O executable ppc

– Daniel