From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2010-10-04T10:22:20+09:00
Subject: Re: install ruby on the mac


On Oct 3, 2010, at 11:01 , Basi Lambanog wrote:

> total mac newby here. i'm traying to install ruby via rvm but i'm not
> having much success. git is already installed. What I do:

You already have ruby. If all you want to do is learn ruby, then do nothing. Open your terminal, type 'irb' and hit return:

> % irb
> >> 1 + 1
> => 2
> >> "this is a test".scan(/\w+/)
> => ["this", "is", "a", "test"]

rubygems is already installed. You really need not do anything at this point.