Installing Ruby with Homebrew and rbenv on Mac OS X Mountain Lion

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:38:00 +0100

Install Ruby with rbenv

I decided to setup Octopress on my Mac so that I can publish blog posts from either Windows or MacOS. I’m on OS X 10.8.2.

I tried to follow the Octopress instructions for installing Ruby but ran into a few problems.

Homebrew is a package manager for OS X. Open Terminal and install Homebrew with:

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

Once the installation is successful, you can run the following command to check your environment.