Hiya!
Have downloaded & installed ruby 1.8 and tcl/tk. Ruby starts up, I'm pretty sure, as ruby 1.8 not 1.6 but tk does this:
Chicagozanians-Computer:/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8 chgo$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'tk'
LoadError: No such file to load -- tcltklib
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