… and looking up explanations it seems I don’t have the right version of ruby, and most explanations on how to do that seem to be about installing a new ruby and not upgrading the one on my system, and when I try to use my mac’s “Mac OS X Software” option to try to update the system ruby it takes me to a webpage that wants to sell dashboard widgets.
At this point I have too many tabs open and it’s bedtime.
Right, it’s more likely a problem of the version of gems and not of ruby (I think I have Leopard—I’m not on my home machine now).
When running
gem update—system
… I got the same error as above, so I guess I’ll have to manually download it and install it and hope that the new one will become the default version (I’m somewhat wary of doing that, I don’t like having several versions of the same software on one machine).
Talk about trivial inconveniences—when I try to get vagrant with gem I get
… and looking up explanations it seems I don’t have the right version of ruby, and most explanations on how to do that seem to be about installing a new ruby and not upgrading the one on my system, and when I try to use my mac’s “Mac OS X Software” option to try to update the system ruby it takes me to a webpage that wants to sell dashboard widgets.
At this point I have too many tabs open and it’s bedtime.
Which version of Ruby do you have? Macs ship with 1.8.2 (Tiger), 1.8.6 (Leopard) or 1.8.7 (Snow Leopard).
The advice I’ve seen for this error is to get the latest version of Rubygems, not Ruby: http://rubygems.org/pages/download
Right, it’s more likely a problem of the version of gems and not of ruby (I think I have Leopard—I’m not on my home machine now).
When running
… I got the same error as above, so I guess I’ll have to manually download it and install it and hope that the new one will become the default version (I’m somewhat wary of doing that, I don’t like having several versions of the same software on one machine).