Oops, I missed this message when I was reading the other replies. I'm running 1.8.7 on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). When I installed Macports and then installed a newer Ruby than is on OS X 10.4 it set me up with 1.8.7. I renamed the old 10.4 ruby so it doesn't run anymore when I type ruby. I'd like to run Rails, and especially Spree e-commerce. Should both of them and all the various gems and/or plugins they require work OK with Ruby 1.9, and if so, how do I even install it with Macports (the only way I'm comfortable installing things) if I already asked it for Ruby and it gave me 1.8.7... ? Thanks again to everyone for all the help getting up and running. :) Roger Pack wrote: > Judging from your error message, you might get a more helpful error > message by running ruby 1.9 (if you're not) and/or running it ruby -w, > which gives you indentation warnings. > -r -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.