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by notsosmart 5629 days ago
I'm just learning ROR from an online tutorial (http://railstutorial.org/), and I wish I had this last week. For newbies like myself, I think installing the framework is sometimes such a big hurdle, it pushes one to give up early. Which is unfortunate, because I read the real challenges happen a few weeks in.

I had a weird issue where I had to reinstall xcode from the OS X DVD. Took a bit of Googling to figure that one out.
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getsat 5629 days ago
If you're on a mac, you already have rails and ruby 1.8.6 (osx 10.5) or 1.8.7 (osx 10.6).

Just sudo gem update to get the latest version and you're good to go.

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drnicwilliams 5629 days ago
ruby 1.8.7 is required for Rails 3; so Leopard/10.5 users need to install ruby 1.8.7 manually to get started as if they didn't have ruby installed at all, I think.
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rohitarondekar 5629 days ago
Actually ruby 1.8.7 is required to install ruby 1.9.2. Rails doesn't need 1.8.7 and works fine with just ruby 1.9.2 installed.

  ruby - Ruby itself is prerequisite in order to build Ruby 1.9. It can be 1.8.
source: http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/wiki/ruby/DeveloperHowto#label-...
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getsat 5623 days ago
If you install via RVM, you don't need a system ruby or anything else installed for bootstrapping.

http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/rvm/install/

http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/deployment/system-wide/

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getsat 5629 days ago
Good point. I've been on 1.9 for so long I'd forgotten about the 1.8.7 requirement for Rails 3.
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