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

Posted by Benjamin Ferguson
Benjamin Ferguson
2,955 Points

Terminal won't install rbenv

So I'm watching the video on how to install Ruby for Mac, and I already have Ruby, but when it gets to the part with rbenv, and tells you to copy the line from the website "$ git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv" and paste it into your console, my console won't run it. It says "command not found." What's going on?

2 Answers

Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,602 Points
Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,602 Points

Hey Benjamin,

just to make sure: Do you have git installed on your machine?

Benjamin Ferguson
Benjamin Ferguson
2,955 Points

Yes, I do. I actually found a different way to install rbenv that ended up working, but thank you. I have other issues to inquire about now.

Yohan Dantan
Yohan Dantan
2,370 Points
Yohan Dantan
Yohan Dantan
2,370 Points

Benjamin Ferguson hey mate I have the same issue - how did you get it working?