# Macos sucking up the universe!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/macos-sucking-up-the-universe/151418>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 21, 2008, 8:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/macos-sucking-up-the-universe/151418 "2008-10-21T08:07:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 8:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/macos-sucking-up-the-universe/151418/1 "2008-10-21T08:07:27Z")

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Hello!

I have a small ppc MacMini, and I decided to try and get a nice Ruby  
environment on it. It shipped  
with 1.8.2 and no Gems. So I downloaded RubyGems and ran setup.rb. It  
told  
me:  
uninitialized constant Gem::Etc, which I replaced with “your Ruby is too  
old” in my mind  
(possibly incorrectly).

So I downloaded Fink to get Ruby updated. Fink said that I needed  
OS10.5. So  
I downloaded  
older Fink that needed OS10.4, which I had. Then I ran Fink’s update and  
it  
said I needed  
XCode. So I installed that from the DVD which came with the computer.

Then Fink said:

You are attempting to use the new 10.4 tree with an old version (build  
5026)  
of the gcc 4.0 compiler, which is not supported. Please update your  
XCode  
to  
XCode 2.2.1 or later, and try again.

So then I had to go onto an Apple website and sign up. And soon  
discovered  
that  
XCode 2.2.1 is at least 800MB, and XCode 3 is about 1GB. Not sure which  
to  
get, I started  
downloading XCode 2.3.

But seeing as I have a 3GB monthly cap on my Internet, and used that all  
up  
downloading  
Xubuntu last week, is there a better way?? Do I really need to download  
almost 1GB  
just to get RubyGems??

Les

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**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 11:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/macos-sucking-up-the-universe/151418/2 "2008-10-21T11:31:32Z")

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Leslie V. wrote:

> Do I really need to download almost 1GB just to get RubyGems??

Macports is the go, fink unnecessary. Can’t say how big the  
initial download is, but if you’re a developer, you should  
install XCode anyhow.

Clifford H…