Installing Ruby, RubyGems, and Rails on Snow Leopard. Monday, 31 August 2009 • Permalink These are instructions for compiling and installing 64-bit Ruby, Rubygems, and Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard.
The benefits of manually building a copy of Ruby in /usr/local are detailed here and here. Prerequisites Before following these instructions, you will need: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard The latest Xcode Tools (from the Snow Leopard DVD or downloaded from Apple — the 10.5 version won’t work) Confidence running UNIX commands using the Terminal. The Working Group » Livin’ on the edge: Ruby, Rails, and. Snow Leopard is out and I like having the latest and greatest, so I bought a new hard drive and clean installed Snow Leopard on it.
This meant that I had the opportunity to reinstall my development environment with the benefit of a few years of experience and the advice of my fellow TWG’ers. Here’s how I got my newly installed Snow Leopard up to speed for Rails development. Ruby 1.9.1 First, I got Ruby up to date. The Omni Group. The MacPorts Project.