Hi all, I wrote a script that generates a ready to use Portfile for any gem. You can find it here: http://www.opendarwin.org/~pguyot/gems_to_portfile.rb The syntax is pretty simple: ./gems_to_portfile.rb gem_file.gem or ./gems_to_portfile.rb gem_name In both cases, it creates a new directory, rb-gem_name, with the Portfile in it. Please note that this portfile uses the new rubyforge_gem fetch syntax (available with the ruby group modification I just committed to the svn repository). The second version will download the gem in the current directory. I need the file to be able to compute the checksums. Besides, if several gems exist and some of them are binaries, it will ask you to choose a version (using the native gem mechanism). This script requires gems (sudo port install rb-rubygems). With such a script, there's no reason to continue to use gem to install ruby gems. Using gem may yield in inconsistencies. I know that most ruby tutorial around say: get ruby with darwinports, then use gem. But I strongly disagree. At some point, we may rename gem binary and put a fake one that displays a warning message. Enjoy! Paul -- Ministre ultraplénipotentiaire en disponibilité. Mobile. Sans baignoire fixe. http://www.kallisys.com/ http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~guyot/