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Ruby Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing the Treehouse VM on Mac

Posted by Andy Wilson
Andy Wilson
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Ruby on Rails Installation

If I have installed Ruby on Rails, do i still need to do the Virtual Box step?

1 Answer

Tuan Pham
Tuan Pham
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Tuan Pham
Tuan Pham
11,207 Points

Hi Andy. Virtual Machine with RoR is just a simulation computer or like Jason said in the video ( a computer within a computer ) so if you don't want it, just skip it. You can live well without it.