Does anyone know how to uninstall MacRuby? I was using RubyCocoa then decided to try out MacRuby, after installing MacRuby, RubyCocoa has stopped working. So I would like to remove MacRuby, but I cannot find any documentation on how to uninstall it.
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I believe everything for MacRuby is installed into /Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework. While I haven't tried it myself, removing that directory should remove MacRuby from the system.
MacRuby shouldn't interact with RubyCocoa in such a way as to cause it to stop working. It maybe the case that something else on your system changed at about the same time as the MacRuby install.
dj2
2009-08-09 04:13:00
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Dj2 is right, to uninstall MacRuby:
$ rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework
$ rm /usr/local/bin/mac*
$ rm /usr/local/bin/hotcocoa
However, MacRuby and RubyCocoa can live side by side in perfect harmony ;)
Matt Aimonetti
2009-10-10 20:16:15
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The given answers won't remove everything. You'll still have XCode templates, examples and a few other dangling sym links: to rb_nibtool and the macruby man page.
To clean this up you need the .pkg file used to install MacRuby in the first place. This gives you a list of all files installed which you can delete. I did this:
$ xar -xf macruby_nightly.pkg
$ lsbom macrubynightly.pkg/Bom # not a typo, the above archive contains this folder
It would be nice if there were a better way to do this...
Charles Dale
2009-11-16 07:53:15