# Recommended install method on OSX?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommended-install-method-on-osx/143302>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 17, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommended-install-method-on-osx/143302 "2008-07-17T03:30:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommended-install-method-on-osx/143302/1 "2008-07-17T03:30:25Z")

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So what is the recommended Rails install method on OSX?

[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoInstallOnOSXTiger](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoInstallOnOSXTiger) seems  
surprisingly convoluted (and maybe even out of date?), given that it  
usually seems like most Rails developers are on Macs. (Disclaimer: I  
myself develop on Ubuntu, where the install was trivial, but I need to  
assist another developer in setting up a dev environment on OSX.)

The Apple page [1] pointed to by the rails wiki suggests Locomotive [2],  
which doesn’t exist anymore at that web site. Or perhaps [3], which is  
pointed to by the Apple page as well? But that page is from 2005, and  
has you compiling almost everything from source…

How about the Bitnami ruby stack [4] ? The instructions /seem/  
straightforward… but…

Help? Thanks…

dwh

[1] [http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html](http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html)  
[2] [http://locomotive.raaum.org/](http://locomotive.raaum.org/)  
[3]  
[Dan Benjamin](http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger)  
[4] [Ruby Cloud Hosting, Ruby Installer, Docker Container and VM](http://bitnami.org/stack/rubystack)

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**Author:** ![helix\_tp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@helix\_tp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/helix_tp)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 3:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommended-install-method-on-osx/143302/2 "2008-07-17T03:55:03Z")

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On Jul 16, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Denis H. wrote:

> [2], which doesn’t exist anymore at that web site. Or perhaps [3],
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> [1] [http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html](http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html)  
> [2] [http://locomotive.raaum.org/](http://locomotive.raaum.org/)  
> [3] [Dan Benjamin](http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger)  
> [4] [Ruby Cloud Hosting, Ruby Installer, Docker Container and VM](http://bitnami.org/stack/rubystack)

Are you finding something missing?

On Mac OS X Leopard, you start with Ruby 1.8.6 and Rails 1.2.3 (and  
rubygems 0.9.4) [1,2] (You could install the OS X 10.5.4 update, too)

From there, it should be as easy as (from the top of my head):

sudo gem update --system # to get many improvements to rubygems  
sudo gem install rails

and start coding!

-Rob

Rob B. [http://agileconsultingllc.com](http://agileconsultingllc.com)  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

[1] [Apple Open Source](http://www.apple.com/opensource/)  
[2] [macOS Ventura - Apple](http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/)  
(under What’s in the Box? / Development)

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**Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 11:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommended-install-method-on-osx/143302/3 "2008-07-17T11:58:30Z")

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Denis,

Hivelogic was the right location, but you had the wrong articles.

Rails stack installation on Mac OSX Leopard :  
[Dan Benjamin](http://hivelogic.com/articles/2008/02/ruby-rails-leopard)

RMagick installation :  
[Dan Benjamin](http://hivelogic.com/articles/2006/06/rmagick_os_x)

Alain