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

Posted by Billy Kraft
Billy Kraft
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Rails Package download for OSX Mavericks

railsinstaller.org does not support Mac OS X Mavericks so I need some help. How should I go about installing the package?

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Stone Preston
Stone Preston
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Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

I would recommend using RVM (they use rbenv in the newer rails videos, but I like rvm better). Alternatively, just follow the instructions in this video. it doesnt use rails installer, it uses rbenv.

NOTE: I highly recommend using the versions of rails and ruby used in the videos you will be watching to avoid conflict. If you are watching the treebook videos I would not recommend using rails 4 and ruby 2.0.0, I would use what the instructor is using.

Here is how to set up your environment using RVM

You should already have ruby installed (you can run $ ruby -v to check)

Run the following command to install rvm with ruby:

$  curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby

then after installing rvm you can install rails:

$ gem install rails --version 4.0.4