Updating Ruby & Rails on OS X

The 10.4.9 version of OS X includes ruby 1.8.1-1, and readline 5.0. The latest version of ruby is 1.8.6. You can follow the excellent instructions on maconrails.com I had to make a few minor adjustments to get it to work on my system.

Install xcode for C development. At least you’ll need to install these packages: gcc4.0.pkg, DevSDK.pkg, BSDSDK.pkg, and X11SDK.pkg
The readline that is included in OS X is recent enough.

Create .bash_profile file and modify the PATH environment variable.

export
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"

Get the latest version of Ruby and Gem. Copy their folders into /usr/local/src. Now build & install it on your system:
$ cd /usr/local/src/ruby-1.8.6 $ source ~/.bash_profile $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-pthread $ make $ sudo make install $ sudo make install-doc $ cd ../rubygems-0.9.4 $ sudo ruby setup.rb $ sudo gem update --system $ sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies

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2 Responses to “Updating Ruby & Rails on OS X”

Tobias Hoellrich Says:
May 28, 2007 at 6:26 pm | Reply
I just did the same using MacPorts via:

$ sudo port -d -v install ruby rb-rails
sj Says:
May 28, 2007 at 6:30 pm | Reply
You’ve convinced me to try MacPorts
I tried macports to install ruby & rails. But looks like you’ll need to install/update rails using gem. Where you able to install/upgrade to rails version 1.2.3 with macports?

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