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Ruby Ruby Foundations Ruby Basics Installing Ruby

Posted by Kelvin Atawura
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Kelvin Atawura
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,022 Points

ruby installation

do i still have to install rbi on my mac as it does give me a version when i type in ruby -v in my terminal? Jason Seifer

2 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
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Stone Preston
Stone Preston
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if you want to use the newest version of ruby you will need to install a newer version. the system version of ruby on your mac is most likely an older version.

Mark Kenney
Mark Kenney
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Mark Kenney
Mark Kenney
10,148 Points

It doesn't seem like you should as ruby should bring everything it needs. Let me put it this way, I've never installed rbi on my Mac.

I would encourage you to look into RVM for ruby installs, they are a great assistance. https://rvm.io/

I also think homebrew is a great help for installs: http://brew.sh/

Kelvin Atawura
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Kelvin Atawura
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,022 Points

was finking same because my irb works fine on my terminal but then couldn't use the text mate to do the edit part of the video

Mark Kenney
Mark Kenney
10,148 Points
Mark Kenney
Mark Kenney
10,148 Points

Do you have textmate both installed and the command line options installed? Sounding more like a textmate issue then a ruby issue but I might not be understanding properly.

Textmate: http://macromates.com/ Command line set-up: http://manual.macromates.com/en/using_textmate_from_terminal.html