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Ruby Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing Ruby on Mac

Posted by Daniel Deng
Daniel Deng
Courses Plus Student 4,322 Points

My Mac hangs on "gem install bundler".

Does anybody know what's going on?

3 Answers

Daniel Deng
Daniel Deng
Courses Plus Student 4,322 Points

When do "gem install ./rails-4.1.4.gem", be sure to add "--no-rdoc --no-ri" at its end; otherwise, the terminal may feel like it's hanged.

Alexander Batalov
Alexander Batalov
21,887 Points
Alexander Batalov
Alexander Batalov
21,887 Points

Daniel Deng Please could you paste the error output here?

Also try sudo gem install bundler

Daniel Deng
PLUS
Daniel Deng
Courses Plus Student 4,322 Points
Daniel Deng
Daniel Deng
Courses Plus Student 4,322 Points

Ok, here is the solution to get around the "unable to connect to https://rubygems.org ..." problem:

  1. Goto rubygems.org and register as an user, and log back in.
  2. Goto https://rubygems.org/gems/bundler/versions/1.6.4 and download the bundler directly onto your Downloads folder on Mac. The link is above the "Authors".
  3. On your Mac terminal, cd ~/Downloads
  4. Do "gem install ./bundler-1.6.4.gem"
  5. The result will be: " Successfully installed bundler-1.6.4 Parsing documentation for bundler-1.6.4 Installing ri documentation for bundler-1.6.4 Done installing documentation for bundler after 2 seconds 1 gem installed "

Voila!