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Japster24
Japster24

Reputation: 1526

can't install ruby on rails w/ mac 10.5.8

I have an older mac mini (v10.5.8) I would like to put the latest version of rails on.

gem update --system gives me "no such file to load"

gem install rubygems-update gives me the same thing as above

So I manually downloaded from rubygems.org/pages/download and extracted the tar then tried running ruby setup.rb but that gives me...

./lib/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in 'gem_original_require': no such file to load -- stringio (LoadError)

...so I'm stuck now..I'm not sure where to go from here...running ruby -v gives me "1.8.7 (2008-05-31 patchlevel 0"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 458

Answers (1)

Seamus Abshere
Seamus Abshere

Reputation: 8526

Instead of using the system ruby, you should try to use rvm to install a recent version of Ruby:

$ curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails --autolibs=enabled --ruby=1.9.3

Or, if you want more control

$ curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
$ rvm get head
$ rvm install 1.9.3

Either way, make sure you run

$ rvm --default use 1.9.3

Note that you may have to install XCode and XCode Command-Line Tools before all of this. Note also that you probably shouldn't use sudo... just have it install ruby for your user.

Upvotes: 2

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