Renumbering artboards in CS4....The Adventure continues...!

Question

Hi there. Just joining this thread now.
Basically, I downloaded the script from Ian's site and then followed his advice to read Matt Neuberg's instructions on how to get rb-appscript up and running.
Then I opened Terminal and pasted this, as per Matt's instructions:
$ sudo gem install rb-appscript
Nothing happened so I deleted the space between the $ and sudo.  Then this message came up:
WARNING:  Installing to ~/.gem since /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 and
            /usr/bin aren't both writable.
WARNING:  You don't have /Users/MYNAME/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin in your PATH,
            gem executables will not run.
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing rb-appscript:
          ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb
mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/r uby.h
Gem files will remain installed in /Users/MYNAME/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rb-appscript-0.6.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /Users/MYNAME/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rb-appscript-0.6.1/gem_make.out
Did I screw something up????  Can this be reversed?
Help!
B.

Answer 1

I didn't mean the the post where you got it from, I meant the joy of appscript site, http://thejoyofappscript.com/2009/12/illustrator-renumber-artboards/
here's my script,
click on the Artboard Tool, to be able to see the actual artboard order/index, then run the script to reorder
in this screen shot, artboards are ordered from right to left. If I wanted to reorder from left to right, I would click on the button "Set Order" next to the "AB 4" button, then click on the "Set Order" button next to "AB 3" button...and so on.
#target illustrator
// var script.name = reArrangeArtboardsCS4only.jsx;
// var script.description = reArranges the Artboards indexes;
// var script.required = an open document with at least 2 artboards, CS4 only, not tested in CS5;
// var script.tip = click on the Artboard tool, before running, to see the AB Indexes
//  var script.parent = CarlosCanto; // 3/31/11
//  var script.elegant = false;
var idoc = app.activeDocument;
var abs = idoc.artboards;
var abcount = abs.length; // save the artboard count
j=1; // new AB order number, used for buttons labels
var btn = []; // left buttons to show AB count
var btn2 = []; // right buttons to set the new order
var win = new Window("dialog","ReArrange Artboards ", undefined,{resizeable:true});
var panelOgOrder = win.add("panel");
var panelNewOrder = win.add("panel");
win.orientation = "row"; // default is column, change to row
win.onClose = onCloseFunction;
for (i = 1 ; i<=abcount; i++) // add as many buttons as ABs
                    btn[i] = panelOgOrder.add("button",undefined,"AB " + i, {name: i}); // named to know wich button was pressed
                    btn2[i] = panelNewOrder.add("button",undefined, "Set Order", {name: i-1}); // -1, to use on 0 based Artboards
                    btn[i].helpTip = "click for help";
                    btn2[i].onClick = onClickButton; // add event listener
                    btn[i].onClick = onClickButton1test;
win.show();
function onClickButton() // add AB and set button label from 1 to AB count
                    this.text = j; // change button label from "Set Order" to 1,2, to AB count
                    this.enabled = false; // disable to prevent clicking twice
                    idoc.artboards.add(abs[this.properties.name].artboardRect); // duplicate AB, which one? 3rd button pressed, 3rd AB
                    //app.redraw();
                    j = j+1; // add to the counter
                    if (j>abcount) // after duplicating the AB, delete the originals
                              win.close();
                              for (k=abcount-1; k>=0; k--)  // loop thru original ABs
                                                  idoc.artboards.remove(k); // and delete
                                                  //app.redraw();
function onClickButton1test()
                    //alert(this.properties.name);
                    var msg = "Click the buttons on the right in the order \r";
                    msg = msg + "you want the Artboards to be Re-Arranged. \r";
                    msg = msg + "You are required to click all the buttons";
                    alert(msg);
function onCloseFunction()
                    if (j>1 && j<=abcount)
                              var msg2 = "You shouldn't close the window. \r";
                              msg2 = msg2 + "You should finish clicking all the buttons, \r";
                              msg2 = msg2 + "other wise you'll end up with extra Artboards. \r";
                              msg2 = msg2 + "If you must close, undo to get rid of extra Artboards. \r \r";
                              msg2 = msg2 + "Are you sure you want to close this window?";
                              close = confirm(msg2);
                              if (close == false)
                                        return false;