# RoR broken on my Mac; please help

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-broken-on-my-mac-please-help/143604>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 21, 2008, 4:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-broken-on-my-mac-please-help/143604 "2008-07-21T04:58:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![lego8](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@lego8](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lego8)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 4:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-broken-on-my-mac-please-help/143604/1 "2008-07-21T04:58:39Z")

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Hi,

I’m new to the RoR language, and I’m being set back by an uncooperative  
installation of Ruby (and Rails).

I followed the instructions at  
[Dan Benjamin](http://hivelogic.com/articles/2008/02/ruby-rails-leopard) but my problem  
still persists.

Whenever I try to do a gem command, I get:

/usr/local/bin/gem:8:in `require’: no such file to load – rubygems  
(LoadError)  
from /usr/local/bin/gem:8

I went around deleting thins hoping to do a fresh install. But I think I  
deleted too much. How can I delete everything and start all over? Or,  
how can I fix my problem.

Thanks very much.

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**Author:** ![lego8](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@lego8](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lego8)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 5:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-broken-on-my-mac-please-help/143604/2 "2008-07-21T05:14:14Z")

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you don’t need to delete anything, just do it all from scratch over  
again. I’m not sure what went wrong the first time, but I followed the  
same instructions last week and it worked fine for me.

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**Author:** ![lego8](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@lego8](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lego8)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 5:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-broken-on-my-mac-please-help/143604/3 "2008-07-21T05:42:18Z")

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jdonnell wrote:

> you don’t need to delete anything, just do it all from scratch over  
> again. I’m not sure what went wrong the first time, but I followed the  
> same instructions last week and it worked fine for me.

I did it all over again and it still doesn’t work.

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**Author:** ![lego8](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@lego8](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lego8)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 6:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-broken-on-my-mac-please-help/143604/4 "2008-07-21T06:02:46Z")

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> I did it all over again and it still doesn’t work.

Report your versions (ruby -v, gem -v, rails -v), and the relevant lines  
of your  
error messages!

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**Author:** ![lego8](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@lego8](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lego8)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-broken-on-my-mac-please-help/143604/5 "2008-07-21T06:09:09Z")

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Phlip wrote:

> > I did it all over again and it still doesn’t work.
> 
> Report your versions (ruby -v, gem -v, rails -v), and the relevant lines  
> of your  
> error messages!

ruby -v:  
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i686-darwin9.4.0]

gem -v:  
/usr/local/bin/gem:8:in `require’: no such file to load – rubygems  
(LoadError)  
from /usr/local/bin/gem:8

rails -v:  
-bash: /usr/bin/rails:  
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby: bad  
interpreter: No such file or directory

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**Author:** ![lego8](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@lego8](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lego8)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 8:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-broken-on-my-mac-please-help/143604/6 "2008-07-21T08:48:20Z")

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I would suggest following the this torturial:  
[http://howtoforge.net/getting-started-with-ruby-on-rails](http://howtoforge.net/getting-started-with-ruby-on-rails)

I wrote it, and it bypasses OSX rails installation, and uses macport.

regards  
svend

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**Author:** ![lego8](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@lego8](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lego8)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-broken-on-my-mac-please-help/143604/7 "2008-07-22T21:14:22Z")

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What’s in your .bash\_profile, .profile. and .bashrc ?

you may not have all of these files.