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Ruby

Joseph Hall
Joseph Hall
10,865 Points
Posted by Joseph Hall
Joseph Hall
10,865 Points

COMPLETELY uninstalling Ruby on Rails and all of its components from a mac

Hi everyone,

I need t completely uninstall Ruby on Rails from my Mac, and all of its components, and start all over again. How would I do this?

2 Answers

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi Joseph,

You can't remove the version of Ruby that comes with OS X as it has system dependencies, instead what you would want to do is use something like RVM as explained in the below link.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/4115811

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

This is why virtual machines (VMs) are your friend.

The easiest way to do this is to use codio.io