Brett Terpstra writes about how scripting runtimes are being removed from the Mac in the next OS release.

This is actually distressing, and not that much attention has been paid to this.

I’m one of those people who just use whatever’s on the system. I don’t think I’ve ever installed a different version of Ruby, and I don’t even know how.

But the ability to run Ruby scripts is hugely important to me — for one thing, this blog is generated by a set of Ruby scripts running on my Mac.