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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Getting Started with Rails Installing Rails (Mac)

Posted by Daniel Brown
Daniel Brown
16,908 Points

I cant seem to install the correct version of Ruby and Rails?

i have been trying to figure out how to install ruby and rails now for around four days, for some reason no matter what i do, i cannot seem to get it to working correctly. I managed to get a later versions installed but when i started to get stuck in to the "Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application" i got about a 3rd of the way through and started running in to problems due to the version of Ruby on rails i was using. I am now back to "Installing a Ruby Development Environment" and i am currently at "Installing Ruby on Mac" and the part of the tutorials where it all starts to go wrong is when i enter the following: "rbenv install 2.0.0-p353" i get the following errors:

Daniels-iMac:~ rubycreative$ rbenv install 2.0.0-p353 Downloading yaml-0.1.6.tar.gz... -> http://dqw8nmjcqpjn7.cloudfront.net/7da6971b4bd08a986dd2a61353bc422362bd0edcc67d7ebaac68c95f74182749 Installing yaml-0.1.6...

BUILD FAILED (OS X 10.10.1 using ruby-build 20150226-3-g0901e41)

Inspect or clean up the working tree at /var/folders/dk/d5tcfyvd2fg92k6p4p_1hj1m0000gp/T/ruby-build.20150301182619.9330 Results logged to /var/folders/dk/d5tcfyvd2fg92k6p4p_1hj1m0000gp/T/ruby-build.20150301182619.9330.log

Last 10 log lines: checking for mawk... no checking for nawk... no checking for awk... awk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for gcc... clang checking whether the C compiler works... no configure: error: in /var/folders/dk/d5tcfyvd2fg92k6p4p_1hj1m0000gp/T/ruby-build.20150301182619.9330/yaml-0.1.6': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables Seeconfig.log' for more details make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. Daniels-iMac:~ rubycreative$

1 Answer

Daniel Brown
Daniel Brown
16,908 Points

i have managed to fix this now, in the end i tried upgrading my osx yosemite, and then when i followed the instructions of the tutorial it worked completely fine, so i guess it was something to do with the set up of my operating system.