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1. Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2013 18:35:57 EDT Jeff Ratliff
   Spent half the day trying to install Ruby on Rails on a Mac. It was a hilarious failure.
   • lnxwalt (lnxwalt)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2013 18:40:27 EDT lnxwalt

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     @gomerx Yeah, I heard somewhere the default #Ruby that comes with #MacOSX is over five years old.
   • Jon Kulp (jk)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2013 18:43:46 EDT Jon Kulp

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     @gomerx Last time I tried to install a cli package on a Mac I first had to get a developer account with…
   • lnxwalt (lnxwalt)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2013 19:12:18 EDT lnxwalt

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     • Jon Kulp
     @jk @gomerx Wow, that’s crazy! Why would someone buy one then?
   • Jon Kulp (jk)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2013 19:21:19 EDT Jon Kulp

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     • lnxwalt
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   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2013 19:33:16 EDT Jeff Ratliff

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     • lnxwalt
     @lnxwalt it comes with 1.8.7 which is fine. I just couldn't get rails to build. And there is no 'gem remove' command.
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2013 19:35:11 EDT Jeff Ratliff

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     • Jon Kulp
     @jk I already have xcode which is necessary. The complete lack of a package management system I'm OSX is a nightmare.
   • Jon Kulp (jk)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2013 20:08:04 EDT Jon Kulp

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     @gomerx Fink works o.k. sometimes.
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2013 20:25:56 EDT Jeff Ratliff

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     • Jon Kulp
     I used this thing called "Homebrew" which downloads and installs packages. I don't know where it gets the packages.
   • Jeff Ratliff (gomerx)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2013 20:26:34 EDT Jeff Ratliff

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     • lnxwalt
     Macs are fine as long as someone else buys and maintains them for you.
     lnxwalt repeated this.
   • Jon Kulp (jk)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2013 22:19:04 EDT Jon Kulp

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     @gomerx I’ve never heard of that. does it work?