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Updating Rails on Leopard - Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Just picked up a great book on Rails coming from a PHP background called Rails for PHP Developers. The examples in the book call for Rails version 2.0.2. I ran rails -v and lo-and-behold, the version of rails that is packaged with Leopard is pretty old.

Rails uses a program called RubyGems for installation (as well as the installation of numerous other Ruby-related plugins and app). First I needed to verify that I had a current version of Ruby gems:

gem -v
# 1.0.1
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