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Ruby

Posted by harsha praneeth
harsha praneeth
5,449 Points

unable to install ruby of MAC

i am using mavericks, and unable to install ruby on my mac. So please guide me and the instructions on the video have gone old. Some one tell me what is the solution.

2 Answers

ixrevo
ixrevo
32,051 Points
ixrevo
ixrevo
32,051 Points

Hi!

Ruby should be pre-installed on Mac OS X.

Try to execute in your Terminal: ruby --version

I'm getting the following output on OS X 10.9.3: ruby 2.0.0p451 (2014-02-24 revision 45167) [universal.x86_64-darwin13]

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

are you trying to install ruby or install rails? as mentioned above ruby should be pre installed. However when installing rails the old video mentions using rails installer which wont work on mavericks. You can use RVM to install rails or watch this newer video that explains how to setup a ruby on rails environment using rbenv

I like RVM so I would go that route. you can install RVM and rails with one command

$ \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails

if you want a specific version of rails just append the version number

$ \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails=3.2