# Mac OS/X and Rails 3? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 5, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mac-os-x-and-rails-3/189678 "2010-06-05T00:05:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![audreylee88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@audreylee88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/audreylee88)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mac-os-x-and-rails-3/189678/1 "2010-06-05T00:05:34Z")
Hello List, Label me a newb, but how do you install Rails 3 on your Mac? Google sent me to these URLs: > **[Rails 3.0: Beta release](https://rubyonrails.org/2010/2/5/rails-3-0-beta-release)** > > You thought we were never going to get to this day, didn’t you? Ye of little faith. Because here is the first real, public release of Rails 3.0 in the form of a beta package that we’ve toiled long and hard over.It’s surely not perfect yet, but we... > **[rails.info](http://guides.rails.info/3_0_release_notes.html)** > > Ruby on Rails,Rails Tutorial,Ruby Basics,Rails 4,Bar Rails,Rail [http://asciicasts.com/episodes/200-rails-3-beta-and-rvm](http://asciicasts.com/episodes/200-rails-3-beta-and-rvm) From early Feb 2010 I see this short recipe: gem install tzinfo builder memcache-client rack rack-test rack-mount erubis mail text-format thor bundler i18n gem install rails --pre On April 1 2010 we have this from DHH: gem install rails --prerelease after you make sure you’re on Ruby Gems 1.3.6 with gem update --system But today is June 4 2010 and I’m curious if there is a more current way to install Rails 3 on a Mac? Also I noticed this on [github.com](http://github.com): > **[GitHub - rails/rails at v3.0.0.beta.3](https://github.com/rails/rails/tree/v3.0.0.beta.3)** > > v3.0.0.beta.3 How do I install that? If it were rails 2.x I would just git-clone it into /vendor/ and call it /rails/ Side note, my Ruby comes from rvm and it currently looks like this: $ $ ruby -v ruby 1.9.3dev (2010-06-04 trunk 28157) [i386-darwin9.8.0] $ $ $ $ gem list \*\*\* LOCAL GEMS \*\*\* rake (0.8.7) $ $ $ $ which gem /Users/maco/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-head/bin/gem $ $ $ $ gem -v 1.3.7 $ $ Help !?!? ---
**Author:** ![audreylee88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@audreylee88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/audreylee88)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mac-os-x-and-rails-3/189678/2 "2010-06-05T02:22:35Z")
Although i installed my RoR 3 with the precedence command , but i recommend u the lazy package RubyStack > **[Ruby](https://bitnami.com/stack/ruby)** > > Ruby packaged by Bitnami provides a complete, ready-to-run development environment for Ruby on Rails. It bundles the latest stable release of Ruby, Rails, rbenv, Apache, NGINX, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Memcached, Redis, Git, Node.js, PHP, Python and... give it a try! ---
**Author:** ![audreylee88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@audreylee88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/audreylee88)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 3:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mac-os-x-and-rails-3/189678/3 "2010-06-05T03:11:11Z")
ShellScripter wrote: > Although i installed my RoR 3 with the precedence command , but i > recommend u the lazy package RubyStack > [Ruby Cloud Hosting, Ruby Installer, Docker Container and VM](http://bitnami.org/stack/rubystack) > give it a try! Irrelevant to the question and bad advice anyway. Rubystack doesn’t seem particularly well suited to Mac OS. ## Best, Marnen Laibow-Koser [http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![audreylee88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@audreylee88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/audreylee88)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mac-os-x-and-rails-3/189678/4 "2010-06-10T04:36:03Z")
Simplest way: Make you are up to date with rubygems, which is what DHH was referring to with gem update --system Then run: gem install rails --pre If you are NOT using RVM, add sudo in front of each of those. Niels ---
**Author:** ![audreylee88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@audreylee88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/audreylee88)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 10:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mac-os-x-and-rails-3/189678/5 "2010-06-10T10:38:24Z")
Have you checked this – > **[\#200 Rails 3 Beta and RVM - RailsCasts](http://railscasts.com/episodes/200-rails-3-beta-and-rvm)** > > Short Ruby on Rails screencasts containing tips, tricks and tutorials. Great for both novice and experienced web developers. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Niels Meersschaert