Error installing Ruby on a Mac using RVM

Question

I am completely new to Ruby, and I am having issues installing it on my Mac running Mountain Lion OS... any help would be great!!!

I have followed a tutorial, and I have installed GIT, curl and RVM. Next step is installing Ruby, which I tried but i got the following error

$ rvm install 1.9.2
Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time.
No binary rubies available for: osx/10.8/x86_64/ruby-1.9.2-p320.
It is not possible to build movable binaries for rubies 1.8-1.9.2, but you can do it for your system only.
Continuing with compilation. Please read 'rvm help mount' to get more information on binary rubies.
Checking requirements for osx.
Installing macports............
Error running 'requirements_osx_port_install_port',
showing last 15 lines of /Users/mikelgainza/.rvm/log/1388506081_ruby-1.9.2-p320/port_install.log
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking objc/objc.h usability... yes
checking objc/objc.h presence... yes
checking for objc/objc.h... yes
checking if linking libobjc requires pthreads... no
checking for Apple Objective-C runtime... yes
checking for GNU Objective C runtime... no
configure: Using Apple Objective-C runtime
checking for Apple Foundation library... no
configure: WARNING: GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is not defined in your environment, preventing the use of GNUstep's Foundation library
configure: error: Could not find a working Foundation implementation
Requirements installation failed with status: 1.

I also tried to install 2.1.0 . It finds the remote but then it gives some errors

Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time.
Found remote file https://rvm.io/binaries/osx/10.8/x86_64/ruby-2.1.0.tar.bz2
Checking requirements for osx.
Installing macports............
Error running 'requirements_osx_port_install_port',
showing last 15 lines of /Users/mikelgainza/.rvm/log/1388512995_ruby-2.1.0/port_install.log
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking objc/objc.h usability... yes
checking objc/objc.h presence... yes
checking for objc/objc.h... yes
checking if linking libobjc requires pthreads... no
checking for Apple Objective-C runtime... yes
checking for GNU Objective C runtime... no
configure: Using Apple Objective-C runtime
checking for Apple Foundation library... no
configure: WARNING: GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is not defined in your environment, preventing the use of GNUstep's Foundation library
configure: error: Could not find a working Foundation implementation
Requirements installation failed with status: 1.

Any idea of what am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

Answer 1

running:

rvm autolibs read-only;
rvm install x.x.x

Answer 2

I got the same error - for me it was a problem with Homebrew - the last lines of the command logs said:

++ printf %b 'Failed to update Homebrew, follow instructions here:
    https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/wiki/Common-Issues
and make sure `brew update` works before continuing.\n'

So then I ran brew update which then gave me another error message with instructions on how to fix it. After I followed brew's instructions I was able to install Ruby.

Answer 3

Error running 'requirements_debian_update_system ruby-2.5.1',
please read /home/ivliev/.rvm/log/1525444837_ruby-2.5.1/update_system.log
Requirements installation failed with status: 1.

decision:

sudo apt-get update

delete the falling packages, and then run it again  

look at the available packages

rvm list known

if necessary there is no. update package list

rvm get master 

install the desired ruby

rvm install "ruby-2.5.1"

Answer 4

I have come across to similar problem

➜  ~ rvm install 2.3.0
Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time.
Found remote file https://rubies.travis-ci.org/osx/10.12/x86_64/ruby-2.3.0.tar.bz2
Checking requirements for osx.
Installing requirements for osx.
Updating system - please wait
Error running 'requirements_osx_brew_update_system ruby-2.3.0',
showing last 15 lines of /Users/admin/.rvm/log/1481339734_ruby-2.3.0/update_system.log
+rvm_error:2> rvm_pretty_print stderr
+rvm_pretty_print:2> case auto (0|no)
+rvm_pretty_print:2> case auto (1|auto)
+rvm_pretty_print:7> case xterm-256color (dumb|unknown)
+rvm_pretty_print:10> case stderr (stdout)
+rvm_pretty_print:10> case stderr (stderr)
+rvm_pretty_print:12> [[ -t 2 ]]
+rvm_pretty_print:12> return 1
+rvm_error:4> printf %b 'Failed to update Homebrew, follow instructions here:
    https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/wiki/Common-Issues
and make sure `brew update` works before continuing.\n'
Failed to update Homebrew, follow instructions here:
    https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/wiki/Common-Issues
and make sure `brew update` works before continuing.
+requirements_osx_brew_update_system:25> return 1
Requirements installation failed with status: 1.

As been told in Jekyll's Doc, I install Xcode Command-Line Tools

Installing Xcode Command-Line Tools If you run into issues installing Jekyll's dependencies which make use of native extensions and are using macOS, you will need to install Xcode and the Command-Line Tools it ships with. Download them in Preferences → Downloads → Components. And after install xcode-select:

xcode-select --install

then I install ruby 2.3.0 successfully.

➜  ~ rvm install 2.3.0
Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time.
No binary rubies available for: osx/10.12/x86_64/ruby-2.3.0.
Continuing with compilation. Please read 'rvm help mount' to get more information on binary rubies.
Checking requirements for osx.
Certificates in '/usr/local/etc/openssl/cert.pem' are already up to date.
Requirements installation successful.
Installing Ruby from source to: /Users/admin/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.0, this may take a while depending on your cpu(s)...
ruby-2.3.0 - #downloading ruby-2.3.0, this may take a while depending on your connection...
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Answer 5

First, you'll need to install the Apple Developers Toolkit (XCode) from the Mac App Store (it's free)

Once that's installed, you'll need to install the CLI command line utilities by running:

xcode-select --install

Then try your install again, and it should work for you.

Additionally, you may want to install the latest version of Ruby, which at the time of this writing is 2.1.0 (via rvm install 2.1.0)

Finally, if you haven't already, I would recommend installing homebrew as well, as this has the added benefit of checking your runtime environment for errors (via brew doctor). You can find instructions here: http://brew.sh/

Good luck!