# Installing ruby with rvm

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/installing-ruby-with-rvm/65732>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [21 June 2012 03:47 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/installing-ruby-with-rvm/65732 "2012-06-21T03:47:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![7stud2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/9de053/32.png) [@7stud2](https://rubytalk.org/u/7stud2)\
**Post date:** [21 June 2012 03:47 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/installing-ruby-with-rvm/65732/1 "2012-06-21T03:47:59Z")

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I got this error log. I have snow leopard 10.6.8 Does this mean i have  
to download xcode?

[2012-06-20 23:40:17] ./configure --prefix="/Users/IBurgan/.rvm/usr"  
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c  
checking whether build environment is sane... yes  
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... config/install-sh -c -d  
checking for gawk... no  
checking for mawk... no  
checking for nawk... no  
checking for awk... awk  
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no  
checking for gcc... no  
checking for cc... no  
checking for cl.exe... no  
configure: error: in `/Users/IBurgan/.rvm/src/yaml-0.1.4':  
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH  
See `config.log' for more details

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**Author:** ![Henry\_Maddocks1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba9def/32.png) [@Henry\_Maddocks1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Henry_Maddocks1)\
**Post date:** [21 June 2012 03:58 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/installing-ruby-with-rvm/65732/2 "2012-06-21T03:58:40Z")

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Yes, or you can just install the compiler tools.

[http://kennethreitz.com/xcode-gcc-and-homebrew.html](http://kennethreitz.com/xcode-gcc-and-homebrew.html)

Henry

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> On 21/06/2012, at 3:47 PM, Ian B. wrote:
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> > I got this error log. I have snow leopard 10.6.8 Does this mean i have  
> > to download xcode?

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**Author:** ![7stud2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/9de053/32.png) [@7stud2](https://rubytalk.org/u/7stud2)\
**Post date:** [21 June 2012 04:15 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/installing-ruby-with-rvm/65732/3 "2012-06-21T04:15:11Z")

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Henry Maddocks wrote in post #1065450:

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> > On 21/06/2012, at 3:47 PM, Ian B. wrote:
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> > Yes, or you can just install the compiler tools.
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> > [http://kennethreitz.com/xcode-gcc-and-homebrew.html](http://kennethreitz.com/xcode-gcc-and-homebrew.html)
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> > Henry
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> Thank you very much. I did not realize they were available separately.
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