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Ruby

Posted by Michael Fleischer
Michael Fleischer
6,551 Points

Installing Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X 10.9

I have been having vast amounts of trouble trying to install Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X 10.9. The video on how to install Ruby on Macs does not help as the application that is referenced will not install on my computer, because it was built for OS X 10.8. Any help would be appreciated. PS - I have downloaded Xcode for Mavericks and RVM using instructions from a different website.

4 Answers

Paul Graham
Paul Graham
1,396 Points

Okay, get ready for the giant instruction set:

  1. type sudo gem update --system && sudo gem install rails in terminal

There is no step 2.

Michael Fleischer
Michael Fleischer
6,551 Points
Michael Fleischer
Michael Fleischer
6,551 Points

Awesome, it worked. Thanks Paul. Is this explained anywhere on Treehouse...did I miss something?

Paul Graham
Paul Graham
1,396 Points
Paul Graham
Paul Graham
1,396 Points

10.9 Mavericks changed the way Ruby is handled on the system and updates it to 2.0 which is compatible with Rails 4. In the long term, you might still want to run Homebrew or rbenv or RVM to manage your Ruby (I personally use rbenv) so you can update Ruby freely without interfering with the OS, but Apple moving to Ruby 2.0 makes things a lot more simple for developers trying to get started.

Paul Graham
Paul Graham
1,396 Points
Paul Graham
Paul Graham
1,396 Points

And since the forum seems to not be working with Chrome 31 and I can't edit, I just want to say the reason it was so complex before was that 10.8 and lower used Ruby 1.8.7 which is incompatible with newer Rails versions. It wasn't only nice to have a Ruby update, it was required.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Paul Graham - There was an issue with the forum for few minutes, I noticed it too, it's fixed now.