# Problems installing rails on OSX

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-installing-rails-on-osx/76947>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 22, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-installing-rails-on-osx/76947 "2006-11-22T18:49:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![mamboze](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@mamboze](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mamboze)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-installing-rails-on-osx/76947/1 "2006-11-22T18:49:19Z")

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Help out a poor dumb Pythonista who’s trying to give rails a try.

I’m running OSX 10.3.9. I followed the directions at  
[Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.](http://www.rubyonrails.org/down) and  
installed from source ruby 1.8.4. OSX came with ruby 1.6.8  
pre-installed in /usr/bin. I  
moved that to /usr/bin/ruby-1.6.8 and make /usr/bin/ruby a symlink to  
/usr/local/bin/ruby.  
All of this went well:

Roy-Smiths-Computer:rubygems-0.9.0$ ruby --version  
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-darwin7.9.0]

Then I downloaded RubyGems, which went not so well:

Roy-Smiths-Computer:rubygems-0.9.0$ gem --version  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd\_manager.rb:52:in  
`initialize': uninitialized constant Gem::CommandManager::HelpCommand (NameError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:46:in `instance’  
from  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem\_runner.rb:25:in `run’  
from /usr/local/bin/gem:23

Any hints what I might have done wrong, or where to start looking?

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**Author:** ![mamboze](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@mamboze](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mamboze)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-installing-rails-on-osx/76947/2 "2006-11-22T18:51:20Z")

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Roy S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Help out a poor dumb Pythonista who’s trying to give rails a try.

While you’re sorting things out, I suggest Locomotive:

[http://locomotive.raaum.org/](http://locomotive.raaum.org/)

It includes everything you need - ruby, needed gems, everything. No  
installation required, doesn’t interfere with your stock ruby, because  
it’s all contained inside the bundle. Brilliant. Plug, play. m.

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**Author:** ![mamboze](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@mamboze](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mamboze)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-installing-rails-on-osx/76947/3 "2006-11-23T01:04:17Z")

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Roy S. wrote:

> Help out a poor dumb Pythonista who’s trying to give rails a try.

…

while i cant help you with that I had no problems with hivelogics  
guidlines:

> **[Dan Benjamin](https://danbenjamin.com)**
>
> Dan Benjamin's personal website.

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