Hands-on Test-Driven Development: Using Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and RSpec

© Greg Donald 2024

G. DonaldHands-on Test-Driven Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9748-3_3

3. Getting Started with Ruby

Greg Donald¹  

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Clarksville, TN, USA

 

In this chapter, we’ll install tools we can use to manage our installed Ruby versions. We will issue commands to our local operating system via the command-line interface¹ (CLI) using a shell interpreter, which depending on your operating system is likely to be bash or zsh. On macOS, we can use the Terminal application to issue these commands, and similar programs are available on other operating systems:

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   Homebrew

    
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   rbenv

    
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   Ruby

    

Installing Homebrew

On macOS, I use Homebrew² to install most of my local software development stack. There’s a shell command on the Homebrew ...