Setting Up MacOS for Ruby Programming
This runbook details what commands to run to get a new MacBook to run Ruby scripts. All of these commands are run in the Terminal application which comes installed on every MacBook. These command will install the libraries: Homebrew, GPG, RVM, and Ruby.
Have Terminal open, and run these commands in order, replacing variables found in square brackets with values specific to the MacOS machine.
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
echo >> /Users/[USER NAME]/.zprofile
echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> /Users/[USER NAME]/.zprofile
eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3 7D2BAF1CF37B13E2069D6956105BD0E739499BDB
\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash
source ~/.zshrc
rvm install ruby-3.3.1 --with-openssl-dir=$(brew --prefix openssl@3)
curl -sSL https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/4830778/raw/main/verify-ruby.sh | bash
Made on MacBook Pro, April 2025.
Written: April 1, 2025
Last updated: April 1, 2025
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