Installing Ruby on Rails in OSX 10.7.5

Want to install Ruby on Rails on your lastest OSX Snow Leopard version? You’ll need to do a couple of steps which look intimidating but aren’t that hard. First, download RVM on your computer Next, download the GCC compiler separately since the latest version is not installed with the current XTools from the app store (but if you have a previous version of Xtools, apparently it is) Finally you can install Ruby and Rails from the RVM command line in your terminal. More details on all of these below… Having never installed developer tools on a Mac before (other things have intervened since switching over to Mac that precluded me from any development), I followed this tutorial to get Ruby & Rails up and running on my mac: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ruby/how-to-install-ruby-on-a-mac/ However it appears that the latest release of Xtools does not include a key compiler for the full install.   So after installing Xtools, I did a little more googling and found this update: http://woss.name/2012/01/24/how-to-install-a-working-set-of-compilers-on-mac-os-x-10-7-lion/ Followed the download link to this site: https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer/downloads And installed the latest GCC package. After installing the GCC package, I went back into my terminal shell and ran this: >rvm install ruby-1.9.3-p194 And was happily greeted with this message… Install of ruby-1.9.3-p194 - #complete IN between those steps I was successfully able t...
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