==== To use ruby-mode, inf-ruby and rubydb in Emacs/XEmacs, add the following lines to your ~/.emacs: ;; Taken from the comment section in inf-ruby.el (setq ruby-program-name "/usr/local/bin/ruby") (autoload 'ruby-mode "ruby-mode" "Mode for editing ruby source files") (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.rb$" . ruby-mode)) (add-to-list 'interpreter-mode-alist '("ruby" . ruby-mode)) (autoload 'run-ruby "inf-ruby" "Run an inferior Ruby process") (autoload 'inf-ruby-keys "inf-ruby" "Set local key defs for inf-ruby in ruby-mode") (add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook '(lambda () (inf-ruby-keys))) ==== Note that some stuff that comes with the standard Ruby 1.4 distribution is provided as separate ports: databases/ruby14-gdbm: GDBM module lang/ruby14-irb: Interactive Ruby lang/ruby14-tcltklib or japanese/ruby14-tcltklib: Tcl/Tk libraries x11-toolkits/ruby14-tk or japanese/ruby14-tk: Tk modules Please install them as occasion demands. === To use other ruby-* ports with Ruby 1.4, build and install them with "RUBY_VER=1.4" defined. (i.e. make RUBY_VER=1.4 install) ====