Highest scored 'macos+ruby' questions

642 votes

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How to install a gem or update RubyGems if it fails with a permissions error

I'm trying to install a gem using gem install mygem or update RubyGems using gem update --system, and it fails with this error: ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError) You don't ...

Gaurav Taywade

8,317

asked Jan 30, 2013 at 15:10

327 votes

9 answers

109k views

How to avoid "cannot load such file -- utils/popen" from homebrew on OSX

I'm getting an error when I run brew in the terminal: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require': cannot load such ...

kerokero

3,271

asked Jul 9, 2014 at 11:53

316 votes

17 answers

73k views

gem eventmachine fatal error: 'openssl/ssl.h' file not found

Just installed El Capitan and can't install gem eventmachine 1.0.7. openssl is at 1.0.2a-1. Tried to use --with-ssl-dir but it seems ignored. Reported it to their github repo as well. Any ...

firedev

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asked Jun 13, 2015 at 11:56

305 votes

25 answers

408k views

Failed to build gem native extension (installing Compass)

When I attempt to install the latest version of compass (https://rubygems.org/gems/compass/versions/1.0.0.alpha.17), I get the following error. ERROR: Error installing compass: ERROR: Failed to ...

cusejuice

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asked Mar 20, 2014 at 20:49

268 votes

20 answers

79k views

Running pod setup gives me "bad interpreter: No such file or directory" error

Recently I tried to do pod setup and I get this error: -bash: /usr/local/bin/pod: /usr/local/opt/ruby/bin/ruby: bad interpreter: No such file or directory I followed Ray Wenderlich's guide to install ...

user3670235

3,145

asked Jul 15, 2015 at 22:20

201 votes

9 answers

224k views

How to resolve "gpg: command not found" error during RVM installation?

I have a new mac pro (OS X 10.9.5) that I get to set up from scratch. I want to install RVM and the first thing it says to do is: Install mpapis public key (might need gpg2 and or sudo) gpg --...

JDillon522

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asked Nov 20, 2014 at 14:22

189 votes

36 answers

134k views

how to solve "ruby installation is missing psych" error?

I used rvm to install ruby 1.9.3. even though it was successfully installed, it complained about libyaml. and now every time i wanna install a gem (say rails) this warning shows up: It seems your ...

Pouya

2,127

asked Feb 24, 2012 at 16:06

188 votes

22 answers

54k views

RMagick installation: Can't find MagickWand.h

Updating RMagick and Imagemagick is a painful expierence. I have updated the Imagemagick version on my mac (MacOS El Capitan Version 10.11.5) with homebrew for one project in Ruby 2.3 to 6.9.5-9 $ ...

0x4a6f4672

28k

asked Sep 14, 2016 at 15:44

184 votes

15 answers

111k views

Can't install gems on OS X "El Capitan"

I am not able to install and run fakes3 gem on El Capitan Beta 5. I tried: sudo gem install fakes3 ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EPERM) Operation not permitted - /usr/bin/fakes3 Then ...

Himanshu Yadav

13.5k

asked Aug 12, 2015 at 18:39

171 votes

5 answers

23k views

ZSH complains about RVM __rvm_cleanse_variables: function definition file not found

When using the latest ZSH and RVM on Mac OS X 10.7.4 ZSH complains about this: __rvm_cleanse_variables: function definition file not found

Tyler Brock

29.9k

asked May 14, 2012 at 14:09

171 votes

8 answers

165k views

'sudo gem install' or 'gem install' and gem locations

Running 'sudo gem list --local' and 'gem list --local' give me differing results. My gem path is set to my home folder and only contains the gems from 'gem list --local'. It's probably not good to ...

raphael_turtle

7,274

asked Jan 22, 2010 at 17:16

165 votes

8 answers

158k views

Removing all installed Gems and starting over

I recently started learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and have watched a plethora of getting started materials. I have been finding lately that I keep getting errors where gems won't install or they ...

Dave Long

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asked Feb 5, 2011 at 15:23

163 votes

33 answers

79k views

Why does installing Nokogiri on Mac OS fail with libiconv is missing?

I've been trying to install Nokogiri on Mac OS 10.9.3 and whatever I try, the install fails in the end with the following error message: $ sudo gem install nokogiri -- --with-xml2-include=/usr/local/...

polarblau

17.7k

asked Apr 3, 2011 at 9:54

153 votes

2 answers

126k views

ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EPERM) Operation not permitted [duplicate]

I just updated my Mac to OSX 10.11 El Capitan and some gems didn't remain. The problem arose when I tried to run installations of different gems... e.g.: > sudo gem install compass Once I ...

Roy Calderon

6,361

asked Oct 1, 2015 at 15:59

128 votes

28 answers

114k views

rails + MySQL on OSX: Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib

I'm just starting out with Ruby (and rails). I did the setup according to http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book#sec:ruby gems, using rvm. I have everything working well with sqlite....

George Armhold

31k

asked May 11, 2012 at 19:33

125 votes

8 answers

95k views

How to resolve "You need to have Ruby and Sass installed and in your PATH for this task to work" Warning?

I am in the process of setting up a new Mac for work. I have installed Grunt & Grunt CLI globally. Then I did a npm install inside a project folder to install all dependencies. No problems so ...

Sven

13.3k

asked Nov 24, 2013 at 15:42

110 votes

30 answers

54k views

Error to install Nokogiri on OSX 10.9 Maverick?

I upgraded my OSX (Lion) to Mavericks and I can't install Nokogiri for my projects. I already install XCode 5.0.1, Command Line Tools (using xcode-select --install), and already installed libxml2 ...

squiter

5,761

asked Oct 28, 2013 at 19:11

108 votes

9 answers

158k views

How to update Ruby to 1.9.x on Mac?

I have created a new user account on my mac and I am trying to update to the current version of ruby on it (1.9.2) from the snow leopard default of 1.8.7. Can somebody point me to tutorial or explain ...

ab217

17k

asked Sep 12, 2010 at 20:49

107 votes

11 answers

52k views

Ruby Gem install Json fails on Mavericks and Xcode 5.1 - unknown argument: '-multiply_definedsuppress'

I was trying run gem install json and got the following error Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/...

g8M

1,263

asked Mar 12, 2014 at 13:19

106 votes

6 answers

185k views

How to update Ruby with Homebrew?

I want to know how to update to the latest stable version of Ruby with Homebrew. I am not interested in using RVM. Thanks.

Ralph David Abernathy

5,419

asked Apr 7, 2016 at 19:13

105 votes

10 answers

150k views

How can I switch to ruby 1.9.3 installed using Homebrew?

I have installed ruby 1.9.3 using hombrew brew install ruby But default 1.8.7 is still used. How can I switch osx to use 1.9.3 as default ruby?

Alexey Zakharov

24.9k

asked Jan 4, 2012 at 16:55

103 votes

6 answers

64k views

RVM is not working in ZSH

I'd like to try out the ZSH shell on my Mac, but I also do a lot of Ruby and Rails development, so I use RVM quite a bit too. The problem is that I can't seem to get RVM to work in ZSH, and it's ...

swilliams

48.6k

asked Jan 21, 2011 at 4:58

89 votes

11 answers

47k views

Invalid active developer path on MAC OS X after installing Ruby

I get this error: xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Applications/Xcode.app), missing xcrun at: /Applications/Xcode.app/usr/bin/xcrun This solution works, but the error occurs again after ...

David Lambl

1,633

asked Feb 24, 2015 at 21:15

89 votes

3 answers

94k views

How do you uninstall rbenv on macOS?

How do you uninstall rbenv on macOS? My version of rbenv is messed up, and brew uninstall rbenv isn't working because brew relies on ruby.

williamcodes

6,876

asked Jul 2, 2015 at 0:52

86 votes

19 answers

173k views

ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)

I have checked all the other similar answers and none was exactly like mine, neither did any of those solutions work for me. gem environment and sudo gem environment give the same result: RubyGems ...

Ava

5,993

asked Sep 3, 2013 at 19:21

85 votes

6 answers

146k views

How do I install ruby gems on Mac

How do I install RubyGems on my Mac? I tried to run $ gem install rubygems-update with no luck. It returns: ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError) You don't have write ...

Lex B

851

asked Sep 8, 2016 at 1:42

83 votes

16 answers

38k views

Mac user and getting WARNING: Nokogiri was built against LibXML version 2.7.8, but has dynamically loaded 2.7.3

I have done all kinds of research and tried many different things. I know this question has been answered many times, but none of the suggested solutions are working for me. After upgrading to Lion I ...

Binary Logic

1,547

asked Jul 23, 2011 at 18:26

83 votes

14 answers

29k views

Why can't I install Rails on Lion using RVM?

I'm running into issues trying to install Rails on OS X Lion using RVM. So far, I have done the following: Installed Mac OS X Lion Version 10.7 (Build 11A459e). Installed XCode 4.1 Developer Preview ...

Michael Jerome

1,601

asked May 29, 2011 at 22:26

80 votes

10 answers

184k views

Why do I get a "permission denied" error while installing a gem?

I'm attempting to install Jekyll. After running gem install jekyll I get this error: ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES) Permission denied - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/jekyll-...

okTalk

1,202

asked Jul 9, 2013 at 14:29

75 votes

5 answers

46k views

Ruby Gems Not Installing, Hangs While Getting Gems

I recently cleared out all of my ruby install and installed form sources using the instructions at hivelogic I have have been able to install a few gems, but most of the time, "sudo gem install rails"...

Tim Hoolihan

12.4k

asked Apr 20, 2010 at 0:17

73 votes

18 answers

58k views

nokogiri gem installation error

I know there are a lot of questions about this gem but no answer has worked for me. When I run in SSH gem install nokogiri I get this error: Extracting libxml2-2.8.0.tar.gz into tmp/x86_64-unknown-...

Claudiu Creanga

8,287

asked Jun 16, 2014 at 20:16

72 votes

10 answers

21k views

rails console doesn't load due to libreadline

I have recently reinstalled ruby 2.1.2 like so since I wanted to install a gem (ruby-debug-ide) sudo rvm reinstall 2.1.2 --disable-binary --with-gcc=gcc-4.2 Since then, I can't load my console using ...

WebQube

8,790

asked Aug 31, 2014 at 11:29

69 votes

4 answers

100k views

Can I upgrade to the current version of Ruby (2.2.3) on OS X v10.6.8?

I'm looking at "Install Ruby on Rails · Mac OS X Yosemite", and in the instructions it says to update your OS which I don't really want to do because my computer is getting old. I also found "How to ...

user70848

886

asked Nov 24, 2015 at 0:54

67 votes

6 answers

53k views

Insecure world writable dir /Users/username in PATH, mode 040777 when running Ruby commands

When I run Ruby commands like gem -v I get this error: /Users/kristoffer/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/gem:4: warning: Insecure world writable dir /Users/kristoffer in PATH, mode 040777 ...

kristofferR

773

asked May 31, 2011 at 18:40

66 votes

17 answers

65k views

Ruby and "You must recompile Ruby with OpenSSL support or change the sources in your Gemfile"

Using rvm I upgraded my ruby to 1.9.3-p392, also added 2.0.0, anytime I try to use this version when I run my bundle command I get this error. Could not load OpenSSL. You must recompile Ruby with ...

covard

1,727

asked Mar 4, 2013 at 22:10

65 votes

10 answers

33k views

rbenv install --list does not list version 2.1.2

I installed rbenv via Homebrew on an OS X 10.9.3 MacBook Pro: brew update brew upgrade rbenv ruby-build According to rbenv install --list on my laptop Ruby 2.1.0-dev is the latest.

levy

843

asked May 16, 2014 at 19:12

64 votes

25 answers

31k views

Error Installing Jekyll - Native Extension Build

I'm having some trouble installing jekyll. Can't quite figure out how to patch the missing link. I think it's an update to Ruby, but RVM is having trouble installing alternate versions of ruby as well....

Robb Schiller

1,109

asked May 23, 2012 at 18:29

64 votes

6 answers

67k views

Bundle command not found mac

I'm using ruby, and I was given a zip file with some ruby programs and it says: inside the folder, run bundle install to install the packages required. When I run the command in my terminal, it ...

ytk

2,827

asked Apr 29, 2015 at 0:42

63 votes

11 answers

71k views

gem install fails with openssl failure

I tried to install cocoapods (http://cocoapods.org/) on my OSX Mountain Lion. moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ gem install cocoapods ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'cocoapods' (>= 0), here is why: ...

Moshe Marciano

2,339

asked Mar 8, 2013 at 23:55

63 votes

8 answers

37k views

How do I use RVM and create globally available gems?

I'm running Mac OSX 10.6.4 and have installed RVM. Its been great so far, I really love the way it lets me manage having multiple versions of rails and ruby on the same machine without headaches! ...

GiH

14.4k

asked Oct 24, 2010 at 4:19

56 votes

11 answers

53k views

How can I install Ruby 1.9.3 in Mac OS X Lion?

I am trying to install Ruby 1.9.3 but am having problems. I installed RVM, then typed: rvm install 1.9.3 The output says: ERROR: Error running ' ./configure.... The log says: configure: WARNING: ...

Klian

1,557

asked Nov 15, 2011 at 15:53

55 votes

1 answer

16k views

fail to bundle install puma 4.3.5 or gem puma with ruby-2.6.6 on macos-10.15.6 [duplicate]

fail to bundle install puma 4.3.5 or gem puma with ruby-2.6.6 on macos-10.15.6 try to bundle dependencies for my project, but puma 4.3.5 occured an error. someone know about this? xxxxxxxxxxxx here is ...

Rick Luo

552

asked Jul 31, 2020 at 7:33

55 votes

8 answers

67k views

Bundler cannot install any gems without sudo

I'm trying to install a rails app and every time I use bundle it fails without sudo. My current situation is that everything works as long as use sudo for everything, including rails. I don't think ...

emersonthis

33.2k

asked May 4, 2013 at 17:23

54 votes

20 answers

101k views

Homebrew install: Failed during: git fetch origin master:refs/remotes/origin/master -n --depth=1

I ran the following command on terminal (Mac El Capitan) $ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" and got the following error message: ...

anm

1,897

asked Oct 3, 2016 at 16:26

53 votes

12 answers

25k views

Can't install mysql2 gem on macOS Sierra

I'm setting up my development environment in the new macOS Sierra . First of all, I installed Rbenv, Ruby (2.3.1), Homebrew and so the latest version of MySQL (5.7.15). $ brew install mysql $ mysql....

Caio Tarifa

6,023

asked Sep 21, 2016 at 13:19

51 votes

3 answers

28k views

Why does Mac OS X come with ruby/rails?

Why does Mac OS X come with ruby and ruby on rails pre-installed? Does the OS actually use it at all? Can I update my Ruby, Rails or Gem versions safely without something spitting the dummy?

Adam Harte

10.4k

asked Aug 13, 2010 at 7:45

48 votes

7 answers

72k views

Installing Ruby gems not working with Homebrew

The gems I install via sudo gem install ... can't be executed (I get a command not found). They seem to install into /usr/local/Cellar/ which is Brew's install directory (also, the gems in /Library/...

john2x

23.3k

asked Jun 26, 2011 at 7:38

48 votes

2 answers

20k views

The command "ruby" does nothing on my Mac

I can't get the Ruby interpreter to run on either of my Macs (one MacBook and one MacBook Pro, both running Snow Leopard). When I run it, by typing ruby in Terminal, nothing happens. It just sits ...

Tom S.

1,688

asked Dec 14, 2009 at 5:36

45 votes

7 answers

46k views

You may have encountered a bug in the Ruby interpreter or extension libraries

I have got a new MacBook, and are trying to install some pods. I first did sudo gem install cocoapods on root, then did pod install in the directory I need the pods. Got this error, and have no clue ...

Anvil

1,825

asked Sep 27, 2021 at 19:22

44 votes

10 answers

32k views

Rubygems do not install on OS X Lion

I used to have no problems at all with ruby, gems and all related stuff. But after installing X Code Developer Tools and upgrading to Lion the gems do not install. I get the following error for ...

d135-1r43

2,485

asked Sep 17, 2011 at 11:25

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