MacRuby vs MacPorts

I am beginning 开发者_开发知识库to learn Ruby 1.9, but unfortunately Mac ships with 1.8. I have stumbled upon 2 ways of getting Ruby 1.9.

MacRuby is Ruby 1.9 and integrates with Cocoa and Mac OSX. The other way is installing Ruby through MacPorts.

So my question is: Which should I go for?

I agree with Douglas F Shearer suggestion of RVM. I use it daily on OSX I recommend it very highly.

https://rvm.io

Importantly, it will also allow you to install different flavors of 1.9 in parallel. So you can ave the MRI implementation and the jruby implementation, and switch between them if you so desire.

Unrelated: check out homebrew for OSX. Link I like it alot better than MacPorts.