Installing Ruby on a Mac

On Mac, Ruby depeds another library called Readline.
Here the steps for installing ruby on mac :
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curl ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.1.tar.gz | tar xz

cd readline-5.1

./configure --prefix=/usr/local

make

sudo make install

cd ..

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now we can install ruby without any problem...

try following commands to install ruby :

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curl -O ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6.tar.gz \

| tar xz

$ cd ruby-1.8.6

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-pthread \

--with-readline-dir=/usr/local

$ make

$ sudo make install

$ sudo make install-doc

$ cd ..

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Now we are done. try to have "ruby -v" on terminal.

$ ruby -v


~ good luck ~