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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Getting Started with Rails Generate a Rails Application

laurie gloge
laurie gloge
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Posted by laurie gloge
laurie gloge
8,593 Points

Errors after installing Rails on Mac 0S Maverick

I used the command \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails. The install worked but now I get warnings. When I go to run rvm use 2.1.1 as I follow along in Generate a Rails Application at 38sec into the video.

Warning! PATH is not properly set up, '/Users/myusername/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/bin' is not at first place, usually this is caused by shell initialization files - check them for 'PATH=...' entries, it might also help to re-add RVM to your dotfiles: 'rvm get stable --auto-dotfiles', to fix temporarily in this shell session run: 'rvm use ruby-2.1.1

3 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
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Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

your PATH variable is probably not configured properly for rvm. try running 

$ rvm get stable --auto-dotfiles

if that doesnt work open up your .bash_profile file in a text editor (im using sublime text 2) and see if rvm added anything to that file.

$ subl ~/.bash_profile

I have the following text in my bash_profile

source ~/.bashrc


[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM into a shell session *as a function*
laurie gloge
laurie gloge
8,593 Points
laurie gloge
laurie gloge
8,593 Points

Thanks so much. I reinstalling rails... following along here.. http://railsapps.github.io/installrubyonrails-mac.html

Here's where I think I went wrong... "You can install Rails directly into the global gemset. However, many developers prefer to keep the global gemset sparse and install Rails into project-specific gemsets, so each project has the appropriate version of Rails.

If you install Rails at this point, you will install it into the global gemset.

Instead, make a gemset just for the current stable release:

$ rvm use ruby-2.1.1@rails4.1 --create"

Waiting for it to finish and will see what happens.

laurie gloge
laurie gloge
8,593 Points
laurie gloge
laurie gloge
8,593 Points

Success! I am back on track.