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

Graham Grochowski
Graham Grochowski
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Posted by Graham Grochowski
Graham Grochowski
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No node.js?

As someone with both a Mac and a windows PC I've followed along with both installation videos, and was curious as to why we didn't include node.js in the mac version

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Samuel Webb
Samuel Webb
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Samuel Webb
Samuel Webb
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I'm guessing the reason he installed it on Windows is because it's needed to download some of the dependencies, but IDK, I don't use Windows for development. On Mac however, there is 0 need for you do download Node when dealing with Ruby/RoR. Which is why he didn't include it in the download tutorial.