# Beginner question

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginner-question/168452>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 20, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginner-question/168452 "2009-05-20T23:08:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/calvin)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginner-question/168452/1 "2009-05-20T23:08:26Z")

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Hello,

I am using rails 1.2.3 that came with my mac Xcode installation. If I  
update rails with:

sudo gem update rails

will the latest version of rails cause a conflict with Xcode?

Thanks for your time,

Calvin

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**Author:** ![calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/calvin)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 10:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginner-question/168452/2 "2009-05-21T10:39:04Z")

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On May 20, 9:39 pm, Calvin [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am using rails 1.2.3 that came with my mac Xcode installation. If I  
> update rails with:
> 
> sudo gem update rails
> 
> will the latest version of rails cause a conflict with Xcode?

Don’t think xcode does anything with rails at all

Fred

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**Author:** ![calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/calvin)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginner-question/168452/3 "2009-05-21T16:08:08Z")

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Thank you for that information Fred!

On May 21, 1:38 am, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/calvin)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 9:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginner-question/168452/4 "2009-05-21T21:35:44Z")

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Frederick C. wrote:

> Don’t think xcode does anything with rails at all

I’m pretty sure you’re correct Fred. Installing the developer tools  
(including Xcode) also install Ruby and Rails, along with other useful  
developer related things like gcc, cvs, Subversion, etc. But, other than  
that Xcode itself doesn’t interact with Rails.

I do have a couple of recommendations though. Before you do anything  
else with updating, first update Rubygems with:

sudo gem update --system

Then your should be safe to go ahead and update any gems you like,  
including Rails.

I’m not sure if this matters, but I don’t really use the gem update  
command, other than to update Rubygems itself. Instead I just use the  
gem install command to install updated versions:

sudo gem install rails