Dan Benjamin has a very clear walkthrough on installing Ruby from scratch on OS X: http://hivelogic.com/articles/2008/02/ruby-rails-leopard It doesn't conflict with Apple's version of Ruby. On Jun 20, 12:34 ¨Βν¬ ΆΞατιοξ¬ ΓαςεωΆ ΌΓαςεω®Ξατ®®®ΐτυςξες®γονχςοτεΊ > >>would just grab the tarball for 1.9 and run ./configure --program- > >>>suffix=19. ¨Βου αμςεαδθαφε αμτθπιεγεσ ωοξεεδ> > [Nation, Carey] > Maybe. ¨Βγοξζιηυςτεμμωοτθατ ηγγαξ§γςεατε εψεγυταβμεσ¬ > install xcode 2.x if you don't have it.