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Compiling Ruby, RubyGems, and Rails on Snow Leopard

These are instructions for compiling and installing 64-bit Ruby, Rubygems, and Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard.

The benefits of manually building a copy of Ruby in are detailed here and here .

Prerequisites

Before following these instructions, you will need:

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

The latest Xcode Tools (from the Snow Leopard DVD or downloaded from Apple — the 10.5 version won’t work )

Confidence running UNIX commands using the Terminal

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