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Ruby

Issues installing rvm to ultimately set up ruby

I was following along the video trying to get ruby set up on my computer. Once I get to the RVM part, I get an error message, code 7, that says can't connect to host. Tried to research the issue online but wasn't really able to find any solutions to this, I am trying to install it on my mac, just updated with snow leopard. Has anyone else had any issues ?

curl: (7) couldn't connect to host

That is the message I am getting,

bash < <( curl https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/install/rvm )

that is what I am putting into terminal after going through the other steps to get rvm set up.

Please advise, Thanks!

6 Answers

The URL you are using is dead. Try this one instead:

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby

Thanks James!

I am using the URL that you provided, that is the one that I used initially, but I kept getting an error message which is as follows

Error running 'requirements_osx_brew_libs_install libxml2 libxslt libksba openssl', please read /Users/pdayaram/.rvm/log/ruby-2.0.0-p195/1371915699_package_install_libxml2_libxslt_libksba_openssl.log

After receiving that a few times, I thought maybe I am using the wrong URL. As far as the video, after installing this, you should get a message with another URL to open up a bash file, and from there use the touch command after it is saved at some point. I never get that message to open up the bash file with that URL, advice ?

Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time. No binary rubies available for: osx/10.6/i386/ruby-2.0.0-p195. Continuing with compilation. Please read 'rvm help mount' to get more information on binary rubies. Installing requirements for osx, might require sudo password. Already up-to-date. Installing required packages: libxml2, libxslt, libksba, openssl.......... Error running 'requirements_osx_brew_libs_install libxml2 libxslt libksba openssl', please read /Users/pdayaram/.rvm/log/ruby-2.0.0-p195/1371916024_package_install_libxml2_libxslt_libksba_openssl.log

Thats actually the full message there

I will try that, my brother actually suggested getting xcode, do you think that will work ?

Thanks for the help James,

Looks like xcode didn't work out, and the link you provided me looked like it was working, but I got an error message which is as follows,

Error running 'make -j2', please read /Users/pdayaram/.rvm/log/ruby-2.0.0-p195/1371934796_make.log There has been an error while running make. Halting the installation.

To proceed rvm requires a ruby-1.9|ruby-2 compatible ruby is installed. We attempted to install ruby automatically but it failed. Please install it manually (or a compatible alternative) to proceed.

I am actually running snow leopard on my computer, do you think that could be the issue, I am running 10.6.8.

Let me know if you have any other ideas, and thanks again for your help I really appreciate it.