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Ruby Ruby Foundations Ruby Basics Installing Ruby

David Langley
David Langley
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Posted by David Langley
David Langley
10,965 Points

Install this on Mavericks ???

Good evening all just running through this video which asks to install gcc and homebrew then ruby.

I am running Mavericks latest version and have already done some ruby views which ran through setting up ruby/rails.

my ruby -v tells me i have; ruby 2.1.1p76 (2014-02-24 revision 45161) [x86_64-darwin13.0]

should I still run through this video installing the items as requested ?

I appreciate your help.

1 Answer

dxoxiifezd
dxoxiifezd
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dxoxiifezd
dxoxiifezd
19,729 Points

Yes, it's recommended to install rvm, and then install your ruby version. RVM allows you to have 1, 2 or more ruby versions in your system. In addition, you can update your ruby version to the last one or remove it.

Naomi Freeman
Naomi Freeman
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Naomi Freeman
Naomi Freeman
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Yep. If you move beyond this Rails project, other peoples' projects can be in a bunch of random versions. Best to have your computer set up to handle anything while you're right at the beginning :)

Sometimes even different gems will yell at you over your Ruby version and it can be helpful to be able to move between them.