On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Dave Aronson
<googlegroups2d...@davearonson.com> wrote:
> I'm having trouble installing Rails 3 (on a Mac Powerbook G4 running
> OSX 10.5.8).  Specifically, when I try "gem install rails --pre" it
> says:
>
> ERROR:  Error installing rails:
>        activesupport requires Ruby version >= 1.8.7.
>
> But, if I do "ruby --version", it says "ruby 1.8.7 (2010-06-23
> patchlevel 299) [powerpc-darwin9]".

> I thought it might have been getting confused because I got 1.8.7 via
> ports (which BTW required in turn an upgrade of XCode, AND took hours
> to download and build), so that was in /opt/local/bin, while
> /usr/bin/ruby was a symlink to
> ../../System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/Current/usr/bin/ruby.

Multiple `ruby` executables -- maybe multiple `gem` executables too?
What does `gem env` say?

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