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alborz
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alborz
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Posted by alborz
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Treehouse, please add a disclaimer or remove this part from your Rails Development track.

I don't recall exactly which stage it is in the track, but when installing Ruby, the course also mentions installing osx-gcc-installer. For Mac users with 10.9 and XCode already on their machine, this is not good at all.

This completely messed up everything.

Now I can't progress in the Ruby track; I can't install gems; I can't even try and reinstall the Mavericks installer via http://osxdaily.com/2013/11/01/re-download-os-x-mavericks-installer-mac-app-store/ since when I try, the App Store says that OSX Mavericks is no longer available in the US.

When scouring for answers I came upon https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/29989#issuecomment-45585730. However when I try and run those commands the terminal just says that those files do not exist.

This https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9332196/how-to-remove-the-osx-gcc-installer doesn't work as when I reinstall XCode terminal still says that I have osx-gcc-installer on my machine.

It's been about three days and I'm utterly lost and have no idea what to do. This is depressing.

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Maciej Czuchnowski
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Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
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Please contact the support directly (link is on the right). This way the response will be quicker and proper people will be informed about the issue.

Jason Seifer
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Jason Seifer
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Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
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Hey Alborz M. what version of OS X are you running on and what is the current status of your system? Were you able to uninstall the osx-gcc-installer? PS: I'm currently working on updated installation guides for Ruby and Rails.

alborz
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Hey Jason Seifer I'm currently running on OS X 10.9.5. Forgive me for being such a newb, but how would I check for the "status of my system"? I wasn't able to uninstall osx-gcc-installer thus far. Sweet -- I'm still trying to get used to this stuff.