Mac10.6.8 under Ruby Environment

Mac is actually a ruby development environment, but because of the low version, I still want to develop under the latest version, so I found the following installation upgrade method.

My system version is 10.6.8.

set up the path 1> edit the. profile file under the user path

VI ~/.profile

2> Add the following at the end of the text

Export path= "/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin: $PATH"

3> save and close. Profile, execute the following command

SOURCE ~/.profile 4> Verify that path is updated, execute the following command, and if you see the path set by 2>, the setting is successful

Echo $PATH

Download Ruby,rubygems

Can download the latest version from Ruby Pipe Network (http://www.ruby-lang.org/)

Compile and install

1> Install Ruby

Unzip the downloaded Ruby package and enter the unpacked folder to execute the following command

(1)./config--enable-shared--enable-pthread gflags=-d_xopen_source=1

(2) Make

(3) sudo make install

Verify Ruby Installation, execute the following command, if you see/usr/local/bin/ruby, the Ruby installation is successful

Which Ruby 2> installation RubyGems

Unzip the downloaded RubyGems package and enter the unpacked folder to execute the following command

Sudo/usr/local/bin/ruby setup.rb

3> installation RubyGems

sudo gem install rails

4> install MySQL gem (provided you have successfully installed MySQL)

sudo gem install mysql----with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql translation Source (http://hivelogic.com/articles/ compiling-ruby-rubygems-and-rails-on-snow-leopard/)