Introduction

The purpose of this post is to quickly and efficiently update you Ruby on Rails stack on Mac OS X Leopard.

Requirements

Caution: Before this procedure is start you must have a cursory knowledge of using the Terminal in Mac OS X.

• Fully Patched Install of Mac OS X Leopard
• Apple Developer Tools

Procedure

1. Open Terminal

2. Run the following

   sudo gem update --system

3. Run the following command to update all your installed gems to the latest version

   sudo gem update

4. That is it!

Note: All the previously installed gems will stay installed as a backup but ruby will use the latest gems that are installed on the system.