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howardrocks
howardrocks

Reputation: 343

Completely reinstalling Ruby Rails and Gem on Mac OS X

I've recently started teaching myself Ruby on Rails, and it's all going well except I'm looking to completely reinstall Ruby, Rails and Gem.

I think I got a bit too excited at some point and deleted/modified some files or folders I shouldn't have, so I just want to get my system back to its original state so that I can reinstall the necessary Ruby, Rails and Gem bits.

I've read in places that I can install something called rvm to do this, but right now I just want to keep my system as simple as possible so that my understanding can keep up.

Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 14740

Answers (4)

Devin M
Devin M

Reputation: 9752

If you are on Max OSX 10.5 and up, Ruby and RubyGems is installed with Developer Tools.

On older versions you could uninstall by running this command:

$ sudo perl /Developer/Tools/uninstall-devtools.pl

Then you just need to reboot your computer and install Developer Tools again. After that if you want to use RVM follow the instructions here. There are also some OSX specific options you should go over as well.

Upvotes: 1

Tilo
Tilo

Reputation: 33752

You list all the gems which are installed in your user account, with:

gem list

You can then delete any of the gems, by doing this:

gem uninstall GemName

... until gem list doesn't show any installed gems. After that, everything should be as good as new.

I would highly recommend to install RVM, because it will help you not to get into the same situation in the future. With RVM you can create "gemsets" to keep the gems for each project separate from other projects. With RVM you can also install different versions of Ruby, such as the newer Ruby 1.9.2

Check it out! It's really not difficult to install

http://beginrescueend.com/

Check these RailsCasts:

http://railscasts.com/episodes/200-rails-3-beta-and-rvm

http://railscasts.com/episodes/201-bundler

Upvotes: 2

tadman
tadman

Reputation: 211740

The simplest way is to use rvm to do this. The advantage to this is that everything's installed in a manner that's specifically isolated from the system.

Using the OS or MacPorts/Homebrew provided Ruby is a great way to get going, but it doesn't scale. For the long-haul, it's best to use rvm because it is easier to stay up to date, to install different versions of Ruby, and to switch back and forth with a minimum of pain.

Plus, if you really get sideways you can always rvm implode and start over, which when combined with bundler will make life pretty easy.

Upvotes: 0

JW8
JW8

Reputation: 1506

You could follow the instructions on the RoR site - the download page also includes instructions. Another option is this one click installer from the Ruby OS X project on SourceForge.

If you have a TimeMachine backup available, you could also choose to restore your deleted files instead of reinstalling.

Upvotes: 0

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