# Question on gems on Mac OSX **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 16, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-on-gems-on-mac-osx/55067 "2006-03-16T20:04:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-on-gems-on-mac-osx/55067/1 "2006-03-16T20:04:51Z")
Hi all, lately I’ve been working with ROR on a MAC OSX tiger at work, however I have one huge problem with seems to be the root of all my problems whenever I use terminal or iTerm to start workign with ROR. Every single time I open a new terminal window or close one and open a new one, I have to reapply my path from .bash\_login for Ruby and MySql, and than I have to install the gems for MySql as well as Rails again every single time I open or close a Terminal window. Is there anyway to make these changes and install stick? My setup was via this article at > **[Dan Benjamin](https://danbenjamin.com)** > > Dan Benjamin's personal website. but its very very annoying to have to re-setup these couple of steps every single time again thats . ~/.bash\_login sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies sudo gem install mysql – --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql my .bah\_login has the correct patth to export in it already, mysql and rails are there but dont’ seem to mesh with my app until I call these arguments. reguardless of wether I am logged in as root or a regular admin and wether or not I’ve done the sudo su command don’t know if this is normal? or if theres something I need to do to my system to make it stop wiping these settings, thanks ---
**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-on-gems-on-mac-osx/55067/2 "2006-03-16T20:27:50Z")
> lately I’ve been working with ROR on a MAC OSX tiger at work, however I > have one huge problem with seems to be the root of all my problems > whenever I use terminal or iTerm to start workign with ROR. Every > single time I open a new terminal window or close one and open a new > one, I have to reapply my path from .bash\_login for Ruby and MySql, and > than I have to install the gems for MySql as well as Rails again every > single time I open or close a Terminal window. Is there anyway to make > these changes and install stick? I’m using OS X tiger as well although I use zsh, but that should not make a difference. You don’t have to reinstall the apps all over again, so something else happens. What response do you get when you do a ‘sudo’? Did you apply your PATH-changes to .bash\_profile? regards Claus ---
**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-on-gems-on-mac-osx/55067/3 "2006-03-16T20:30:54Z")
Robert Huhn wrote: > sudo gem install mysql – --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql > system to make it stop wiping these settings, thanks I’m new to OS X, coming from linux, so I must have got lucky (mines working fine via iTerm). I installed ruby, mysql, postgres from darwinports and added the paths to ~/.profile. I don’t have a ~/.bash\_login Dunno the difference between .profile and .bash\_login but maybe try removing .bash\_login and add to .profile Jhn ---
**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-on-gems-on-mac-osx/55067/4 "2006-03-16T20:58:43Z")
John D. wrote: > I’m new to OS X, coming from linux, so I must have got lucky (mines > working fine via iTerm). I installed ruby, mysql, postgres from > darwinports and added the paths to ~/.profile. I don’t have a > ~/.bash\_login > > Dunno the difference between .profile and .bash\_login but maybe try > removing .bash\_login and add to .profile > > Jhn Actually I have no clue about .profile… I just followed the instructions in the tutorial I linked… Did I mention I usually use an xp machine at home? I’m bascially quasi new to tiger (have used otheer flavors of Mac os+ os x but never for developement before), I’m going to try adding the paths to .profile, I assume its just another text file? ---
**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-on-gems-on-mac-osx/55067/5 "2006-03-16T21:02:07Z")
Claus G. wrote: > I’m using OS X tiger as well although I use zsh, but that should not > make a difference. You don’t have to reinstall the apps all over > again, so something else happens. > > What response do you get when you do a ‘sudo’? Did you apply your > PATH-changes to .bash\_profile? > > regards > Claus when i do a sudo command it just prompts for password than back to command line I have not touched .bash\_profile I wasn’t aware it existed till now whoops! thanks I’ll try that -Robert ---
**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-on-gems-on-mac-osx/55067/6 "2006-03-16T21:10:50Z")
On Mar 16, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Robert Huhn wrote: > > Jhn > > Actually I have no clue about .profile… I just followed the > instructions in the tutorial I linked… Did I mention I usually > use an > xp machine at home? I’m bascially quasi new to tiger (have used > otheer > flavors of Mac os+ os x but never for developement before), I’m > going to > try adding the paths to .profile, I assume its just another text file? What’s the content of your current .bash\_profile? – Jason P. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid “The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.” - Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy ---
**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-on-gems-on-mac-osx/55067/7 "2006-03-16T21:13:57Z")
On Mar 16, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Robert Huhn wrote: > > Claus > > when i do a sudo command it just prompts for password than back to > command line > > I have not touched .bash\_profile I wasn’t aware it existed till now > whoops! thanks I’ll try that Disregard my previous email. If you didn’t setup your path info in .bash\_profile, then that’s why you’re having issues. – Jason P. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid “The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.” - Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy ---
**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-on-gems-on-mac-osx/55067/8 "2006-03-16T21:38:44Z")
> Actually I have no clue about .profile… I just followed the > instructions in the tutorial I linked… Did I mention I usually use an > xp machine at home? I’m bascially quasi new to tiger (have used otheer > flavors of Mac os+ os x but never for developement before), I’m going to > try adding the paths to .profile, I assume its just another text file? Welcome to a new world 🙂 When you open up a terminal window you can type ls to get the directory listing. Doing a ‘ls -al’ will give you hidden files (denoted with a dot (.)). The easiest thing is probably to edit the bash-system-wide config-file called in /etc/profile (ls -l /etc/profile). Edit the file using ‘sudo pico /etc/profile’ and make your changes here: PATH=“/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin” Press ctrl-x and confirm your changes. I would also suggest that you take a look at [darwinports.org](http://darwinports.org). It’s an easy way to install ports, and I used it to install ruby, postgresql, gem etc. There is a fairly easy howto at their site. I installed darwinports using a prefix of /usr/local (./configure –prefix=/usr/local) rather than the default /opt/local. regards Claus ---
**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-on-gems-on-mac-osx/55067/9 "2006-03-16T22:13:53Z")
> Welcome to a new world 🙂 When you open up a terminal window you can > type ls to get the directory listing. Doing a ‘ls -al’ will give you > hidden files (denoted with a dot (.)). > > The easiest thing is probably to edit the bash-system-wide config-file > called in /etc/profile (ls -l /etc/profile). > > Edit the file using ‘sudo pico /etc/profile’ and make your changes here: > > PATH=“/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin” > > Press ctrl-x and confirm your changes. > > I would also suggest that you take a look at [darwinports.org](http://darwinports.org). It’s an > easy way to install ports, and I used it to install ruby, postgresql, > gem etc. There is a fairly easy howto at their site. I installed > darwinports using a prefix of /usr/local (./configure > –prefix=/usr/local) rather than the default /opt/local. > > regards > Claus Ok thanks for all the help guys I’m gettign soem permissions errors but I think its working now \*crosses fingers, you’d think as an IT major at RIT they’d teach you somethign more than how to use ls -l heh I swear the only places I learn anymore are forums… oh well going ahead with my Event Calendar/events RSS/ company internal webapp thing -thanks again -Robert