Hey, thanks. Yes, indeed, Ruby is installed, rubygems is installed. Amazing. Now I'd like to install Sinatra and play with it. On Oct 3, 7:22 ¨Âí¬ Òùáî Äáöé¼òùáîäò®®®Àúåîóðéäåò®ãïí¾ ÷òïôåº > On Oct 3, 2010, at 11:01 , Basi Lambanog wrote: > > > total mac newby here. i'm traying to install ruby via rvm but i'm not > > having much success. git is already installed. What I do: > > You already have ruby. If all you want to do is learn ruby, then do nothing. Open your terminal, type 'irb' and hit return: > > > % irb > > >> 1 + 1 > > => 2 > > >> "this is a test".scan(/\w+/) > > => ["this", "is", "a", "test"] > > rubygems is already installed. You really need not do anything at this point.