Cant install rbenv as instructed in video for Ruby on Mac!! (-bash: $: command not found)

Hi Chris!

Sorry to hear that you're having issues getting rbenv installed. It sounds like git might not be in your $PATH.

From the console can you run:

$ type git

andrew,

Thanks for the reply, but I feel very dumb. The issue was I had multiple $ signs next to each other as I literally copied everything from the link.

Thanks and cheers!

Oh that makes sense now. I'm glad that you got it figured out on your own.

Happy coding!

one minor suggestion that you or one of the staff may amend to the video. To install gems on Macs since we already have ruby installed, it requires the Sudo prefix before the install, otherwise it throws an insufficient privilege cannot write error. I found this out by looking at stackoverflow.

Keep up the good work. And hope to see more lessons on Ruby!

Chris,

If have to install gems with sudo, you might still be using the system Ruby (that came installed with your OS).

One of the advantages of using rbenv, is that you don't have to use sudo to install gems. This is because gems are installed in your home directory. You can find out what what version of Ruby you are currently using with rbenv versions and set the appropriate version with rbenv global.

so I'm a tad unclear about the utility of rbenv. I've been taking the foundations course and we always immediately jump into the irb. Do i need to run rbenv first before I execute the irb? Sorry if I am not using the right lexicon to describe this all. I come from a background of javascript and am new to the console.

Also, where would my gems be stored currently, and should I reinstall them?

A little background might help.

In the beginning there was only one Ruby interpreter, but eventually people wrote other implementations (jruby, rubinius, etc). With all these other implementation things started getting harder to manage, so along came rbenv.

rbenv allows your to install multiple Ruby versions and switch between them easily. Once you set the version that you want there is no need to do anything (until you want to upgrade or change versions).

Running irb will use the Ruby version that was previously set with rbenv.

thanks Andrew, you've been a tremendous help! I am always impressed by the responsiveness on these forums and one of the many reasons I plan on resubscribing. I will spend a little more research looking around the internet, but know I can use you for help if I ever come across anything peculiar.

Best!