Another OS X Updated Killed my Symbolic Ruby 1.8.4 Link at sablog.com

Written by Shanti A. Braford May 24th, 2006in Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Just had to go through these steps again.

Anyone know of a permanent solution? OS X update doesn’t seem to like my symoblic Ruby 1.8.4 link.

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1 Charles Jolley on May 27th, 2006 at 7:09 am

I don’t know if this will work for you, but I just added the /usr/local/bin path to my .profile file and that makes the ruby 1.8.4. get invoked first. No symlink. I haven’t had problems so far.
2 flevour on May 29th, 2006 at 5:55 am

In Linux there is a `chattr` command you could use on your link so it can’t be modified/overwritten: iirc you need to`chattr i /path/to/filename`
3 Shanti A. Braford on May 30th, 2006 at 6:45 pm

Thanks for the heads up on both of these options.

@flevour - doesn’t look like OS X comes with ‘chattr’. I’ll keep that in mind though for my linux hacking.

@Charles - Ahh. I had ‘/usr/local/bin’ in my PATH, but I had it coming after my pre-defined OS path. Good call.