How to install ruby on macOS

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Hey everyone, How do I install Ruby On macOS

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I use rvm.io

For a while I used ruby-install and chruby from brew.sh

There is also rbenv but I never used it.

also I am on macOS 12 Monterey

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Go Rails has very nice guides: Install Ruby On Rails on macOS 14 Sonoma (Apple Silicon, M1, M2, M3) | GoRails

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I’ll second RVM. It’s old but it works and is still being updated with the latest rubies.

I think asdf looks like a newer option that handles more than just ruby, but I haven’t used it yet because I only use ruby lately.

I would say that if you are going to go with RVM, I would skip gemsets. They used to be useful but bundler has made them largely obsolete.

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On macOS 14.7 Sonoma and have some Linux environments.

I’ve used Rbenv on all of them for Rails and other Ruby apps.

I ran into a fair share of hurdles before I felt I had a handle on it. I documented my best practices here.

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Thanks everyone I got it

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You can do this with a one line command using https://rails.new/ as well and it’s a free tool. It uses rbenv to install ruby.

(P.S. I am also one of the author)

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I have been playing with rails for the first time, too, and had the same question. I opted for using mise, which is similar to asdf.

Essentially:

$ brew install mise
$ mise use --global ruby@latest

You can fine-tune your ruby environment with mise, e.g., use a different ruby version for your rails project A vs. rails project B. See the mise docs for more information.

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