Installing Ruby And Rails in Mac OSX

Posted by tech on July 17, 2009

I have never bothered studying Ruby nor Rails because of its ever confusing ways to even install it in your system, whether they be in Windows or Mac OS. Really. I managed to install part of it in Windows, and made a simple application but got stuck at a certain point where I gave up. When a friend of mine told me to study it because the Ruby industry is pretty big and can offer big cash driven development opportunities, I gave it another try to install it. This time in my Mac OSX.

I still had a hard time again. But voila! I read that Mac OS Leopard comes with Ruby and Rails. Even its previous version Tiger comes with it. So I guess I can start learning right away. But before that, just to make sure, update the following Ruby related technologies with the latest version. The following commands will do just the thing.

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sudo gem update --system
sudo gem install rails
sudo gem update rake
sudo gem update sqlite3-ruby

Those are it. Now you are ready to go and start learning Ruby and Rails.