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Ruby Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing Ruby on Mac

Posted by iwmikmpkhu
iwmikmpkhu
14,691 Points

Can't Install rbenv…or anything else.

I'm trying to perform the first task of the rbenv installation on a mac, and when I copy/paste:

git clone https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv

I get back:

~$ git clone https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv Illegal instruction: 4

Also, incase it's of any use, this is what is returned for the version of ruby that is already installed on my machine:

~ $ ruby -v ruby 1.8.7 (2012-02-08 patchlevel 358) [universal-darwin11.0]

Thanks in advance!

2 Answers

Roberto Alicata
PLUS
Roberto Alicata
Courses Plus Student 39,959 Points
Roberto Alicata
Roberto Alicata
Courses Plus Student 39,959 Points

Install Homebrew

then in the terminal write:

$ brew update
$ brew install rbenv ruby-build
iwmikmpkhu
iwmikmpkhu
14,691 Points
iwmikmpkhu
iwmikmpkhu
14,691 Points

Success! Thank you, Roberto.