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Ruby

Posted by Brad L'estrange
Brad L'estrange
2,085 Points

Railsinstaller

I can't install rails on my mac because I am running OS X 10.9.1 and it is only for 10.8 and 10.7 and the other one on their website is for 10.6 how do I install Rails on my computer? I did try the latest one but it said only for 10.8 and 10.7.

Any help?

Jason Seifer

Update: Just saw that read box say do not try it until further notice. So does anyone know when it would be out cause I want to learn ruby and maybe get all those tutorials done by the end of next month.

4 Answers

Tim Indyk
Tim Indyk
6,426 Points
Tim Indyk
Tim Indyk
6,426 Points

I've had a lot of luck with the Treehouse VM from "Installing A Ruby Development Environment" using Vagrant + VirtualBox. Very pain free.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

The Treehouse VM is probably the best choice. If you like doing things the hard way you can install it yourself

http://dean.io/setting-up-a-ruby-on-rails-development-environment-on-mavericks

Brad L'estrange
Brad L'estrange
2,085 Points
Brad L'estrange
Brad L'estrange
2,085 Points

I don't like the hard way haha do you know when the rails installer will be back up?

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Looks like the rails installer project might have been abandoned

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/railsinstaller/7VYUdbxxolY

It also looks like rails installer is dead due to legal issues

https://github.com/railsinstaller/railsinstaller-nix/issues/19

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points
Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

I would follow Jason's new video on setting up a ruby environment. Just note that if you have RVM installed, you'll need to uninstall first.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

I thought in Jason's new video he used a vagrant VM, making everything a self-contained VM not affecting your local system at all?

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

If using the VM that may be the case. There is also a video about setting up a ruby environment locally. I followed this so I could follow along with the ToDo application videos using rails 4.

But they had us install RVM for the treebook application. So after a couple hours I managed to get RVM uninstalled and the proper versions of ruby and rails working using rbenv (since I'm still using 3.2 for my own application)

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

So you swapped out rvm for rbenv?

That makes sense.

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

I didn't initially until things didn't work and found out that they don't mix. I stuck with rbenv because that's what was used and seemed easy enough.

Hopefully they fix the intros to the Treebook videos to point to installs of ruby and rails on the newly released videos, especially since rails installer doesn't work anymore.