# Could gems upgrade ruby itself? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 17, 2007, 11:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/could-gems-upgrade-ruby-itself/92239 "2007-04-17T11:35:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kernel1983](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@kernel1983](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kernel1983)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 11:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/could-gems-upgrade-ruby-itself/92239/1 "2007-04-17T11:35:47Z")
gems can install and upgrade almost everything for me! but I wonder if it could upgrade ruby itself? I’m using ruby 1.82(OS X pre-installed) and I’m too lazy for things upgraded ---
**Author:** ![kernel1983](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@kernel1983](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kernel1983)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/could-gems-upgrade-ruby-itself/92239/2 "2007-04-17T14:26:09Z")
No gems can’t, but if you install Ruby with Darwin Ports you could upgrade it just as easily as you can with gems. Ports is a package management system, and I love it almost as much as I love gems. Cam ---
**Author:** ![kernel1983](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@kernel1983](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kernel1983)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/could-gems-upgrade-ruby-itself/92239/3 "2007-04-17T15:32:24Z")
oh, just don’t be lazy. You just need a little bit of your unix navigation skills to find the location of Ruby in OSX You can overwrite it, or you can leave it and install in a new, more standard, directory. You’ll only have to write something to the Bash .profile or .bashrc or .bash\_login to set the PATH for looking for it. If you’re using any database with it, you will have to do this stuff anyway. Just use the tutorial on Hivelogic