[LRUG] Setting up Ruby + Gems + Rails on OS X

Pat Allan pat at freelancing-gods.com
Wed Dec 9 02:47:22 PST 2009


RVM is on my list of things to try, but now that I've switched to fish  
for my shell, that may be difficult.

Like Paul, I use the inbuilt Ruby, but I changed the gem location to  
be local. For bash, this can be done as follows:
http://gist.github.com/217895

-- 
Pat

On 09/12/2009, at 9:39 PM, Paul Campbell wrote:

> I just use the out of the box OS  X Ruby and gems. Although there's
> been a lot of good things said about RVM lately...
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Anthony Green <Anthony.Green at bbc.co.uk 
> > wrote:
>>
>> I spent a good hour of yesterday evening debugging a gems problem  
>> on a
>> colleagues laptop.
>>
>> It made me wonder whether there's a general consensus amongst  
>> LRUGers on
>> what's the best way to manage Ruby + Gems + Rails on OS X ?
>>
>> For myself I've 'fallen back' to using MacPorts, since it seems to
>> accommodate a growth in need (counchDB etc) quite well.
>>
>>
>> Thoughts ?
>>
>>
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