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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Getting Started with Rails Installing Rails (Mac)

Posted by Johanne Trippas
Johanne Trippas
7,367 Points

Rails installer (Mac OSX 10.9)

Hi,

The webpage from the Rails Installer says the following

"Please do not run the installer on OSX Mavericks until further notice. "

Is there an other way to get everything installed?

Thanks!

1 Answer

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Check out the Installing Ruby on Mac video, from the Installing a Ruby Development Environment course.

Johanne Trippas
Johanne Trippas
7,367 Points

Hi James,

I did that video before but it doesn't install rvm and mysql.

Thanks.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Nope. It uses rbenv & sqlite instead for it's Rails install.

Johanne Trippas
Johanne Trippas
7,367 Points

So does it mean that I can type rbenv instead of rvm?

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

You use rbenv global instead rvm use

As noted in the video I linked you to at time index 3:22, Jason installed Ruby version 2.0.0-p353 so to tell rbenv to use that version he typed.

rbenv global 2.0.0-p353
Johanne Trippas
Johanne Trippas
7,367 Points

Thanks for helping James! It seems to work fine.