I can't recommend RailsApps and Daniel Kehoe strongly enough. http://railsapps.github.io/installrubyonrails-mac.html
Saved me hours if not days of pain. On Monday, February 8, 2016, Rebecca Colavin <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Ian. > > I have a good basic understanding of getting an app up and running (thanks > LEARN academy!) so learning to use the tools you mention is the sensible > next step. > > Best, > > Rebecca > > > On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 5:31:12 PM UTC-8, Ian Young wrote: >> >> Hey Rebecca, >> >> I think the lesson here is "use rbenv or rvm". These tools let you >> control your version of Ruby and upgrade on your own time rather than when >> your OS decides to. And just as importantly, they give you a Ruby that's a >> known quantity rather than whatever random changeset the OS developers >> grabbed and patched with who-knows-what and compiled with whatever flags >> they felt like using. If every Rubyist was using these tools, we'd see a >> vast reduction in overall grief. >> >> However, I am conflicted about offering that advice to someone who's >> starting with Ruby for the very first time. The process of getting your >> first Rails app from zero to booted is already pretty long and filled with >> installing and configuring mysterious things ("Ok, I downloaded Xcode, now >> I need homebrew, I guess? Wait, why am I installing Node.js? What's a >> coffee script?"), and rbenv/rvm adds one more mysterious tool to configure, >> not to mention one more decision that the newbie is not equipped to make. I >> wish there were a way to catch people right before they encounter their >> first major Ruby headache and funnel them to rbenv/rvm just in time. >> >> Ian >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016, at 04:15 PM, Rebecca Colavin wrote: >> >> Hi Peter. >> >> There's a lesson here somewhere.... it may be "if you had installed El >> Capitan in a timely manner you would have heard about this when we were all >> talking about it" or "searching StackOverFlow requires some level of >> understanding" or possibly "By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Worvan, >> you shall be avenged." >> >> It's always so simple once you know the answer. >> >> Thanks for the support, >> >> Rebecca >> >> On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 3:57:39 PM UTC-8, Peter Fitzgibbons wrote: >> >> You updated Ruby. The update to El Capitan breaks some of the dynamic >> links that were compiled into ruby. >> The El cap upgrade also btw breaks many homebrew installs. I personally >> had to uninstall/reinstall many of the homebrew apps (postgres, redis, etc) >> Thanks for posting your findings! >> >> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 3:49 PM Rebecca Colavin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Howdy All >> >> This was supposed to be a post begging for help... I have been having a >> segmentation fault when running "rails generate rspec:install" on a Mac. No >> posts on StackOverflow (stop spring etc) were any help whatsoever. Just >> before submitting to the group, I updated from OSX from Yosemite to El >> Cap, uninstalled and reinstalled rails, postgresql (I had previously had >> issues with installing the pg gem) and rspec. I updated ruby (2.0.0 to >> 2.0.0p643). >> >> Note that I had previously tried reinstalling rails with no effect >> whatsoever on the problem. >> >> I had previously been able to use rspec without incident. I do not know >> which particular dependency caused the problem but I just wanted to post >> here so the issue (and lame-brain solution) is documented. If someone has >> an idea what might have been the actual problem, that might be useful! I >> have the diagnostic report, if you should a need for a headache (I >> certainly have one). >> >> I hope my experience may be of help to some other poor newbie. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Rebecca >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> SD Ruby mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "SD Ruby" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> -- >> SD Ruby mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "SD Ruby" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SD Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sdruby%[email protected]');>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. 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