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Ruby Ruby Foundations Ruby Basics Installing Ruby

Romi Stepovich
Romi Stepovich
8,473 Points
Posted by Romi Stepovich
Romi Stepovich
8,473 Points

I can't seem to find a compiler for OS X Yosemite for my Mac. I tried GCC-7 and I got a message it will work with Lion.

Is there a compiler out there I can use? I've never dealt with a compiler program before so I'm not sure exactly where I should be searching. Thanks!

2 Answers

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
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Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

I don't think you need any compiler for this. The video is pretty old. First of all, you probably already have Ruby installed on your system if it's MacOS Yosemite. Go to your terminal, write irb and see if this works. If it starts a different type of terminal and you can write Ruby commands there, you have Ruby on your system and can ignore the whole installation guide. RVM will be useful only if you want multiple versions of Ruby installed (this is often needed when you develop in Rails).

Romi Stepovich
Romi Stepovich
8,473 Points
Romi Stepovich
Romi Stepovich
8,473 Points

Thank you! You're right. I tried it and I have Ruby already installed. I appreciate the help and your clear explanations of what I needed to do.