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Development Tools Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing Ruby on Mac

ryan champion
ryan champion
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Posted by ryan champion
ryan champion
6,528 Points

Ruby install error

Hi,my Mac doesn't have Ruby installed,and my version is OS X Yosemite 10.10.1.When I was trying to install Ruby,I got a error message:

BUILD FAILED (OS X 10.10.1 using ruby-build 20150130-2-g8106d8f)

Inspect or clean up the working tree at /var/folders/ws/xzjlwbnj1djb_0c94g1cpffm0000gp/T/ruby-build.20150224012452.66326
Results logged to /var/folders/ws/xzjlwbnj1djb_0c94g1cpffm0000gp/T/ruby-build.20150224012452.66326.log

Last 10 log lines:
    from /private/var/folders/ws/xzjlwbnj1djb_0c94g1cpffm0000gp/T/ruby-build.20150224012452.66326/ruby-2.2.0/lib/rubygems/dependency_installer.rb:394:in `install'
    from /private/var/folders/ws/xzjlwbnj1djb_0c94g1cpffm0000gp/T/ruby-build.20150224012452.66326/ruby-2.2.0/lib/rubygems.rb:558:in `install'
    from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:717:in `block (2 levels) in <main>'
    from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:716:in `each'
    from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:716:in `block in <main>'
    from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:749:in `call'
    from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:749:in `block in <main>'
    from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:746:in `each'
    from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:746:in `<main>'
make: *** [do-install-all] Error 1

What should I do with this?

5 Answers

ryan champion
ryan champion
6,528 Points
ryan champion
ryan champion
6,528 Points

Hi, Thanks guys. The :

ruby-v

command came up with nothing. I've since located:

http://railscasts.com/episodes/310-getting-started-with-rails

The video on the page was awesome - got me through homebrew/RVM/ Ruby install.

Could be useful for others. Still curious as to why the " ruby-v" command did nothing in the frsy place. A friend on Yosemite had a similar problem.

William Li
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William Li
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William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

Well, I guess that is probably because you haven't installed the Command Line Tools for Yosemite. This is a Command Line tools bundle distributed by Apple, it included lots of essential Command utilities, I supposed Ruby is one of them. If you are curious how to install it, there's a guide.

RailsCase is great, but just keep in mind that its content isn't very up-to-date, the last video uploaded was over a year ago, it's still an amazing Rails resource, many of the topics it talked about still quite applicable today.

Jim Withington
Jim Withington
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Jim Withington
Jim Withington
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Hi ryan champion !

I wonder if you actually do have a system install of ruby.

What happens if you run this in the same directory?

rails -v
William Li
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William Li
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William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

Hi, Ryan, OS X Yosemite ships with Ruby 2.0 https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/29795, try typing this command see what the output you get

ruby -v
ryan champion
ryan champion
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ryan champion
ryan champion
6,528 Points

Awesome William. Things are starting to make some sense now.. ;-)