First, many thanks in advance for any help. I'm a complete novice with programming and I'm trying to get started with this Ruby on Rails tutorial (http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book?version=3.2)

I have been trying figure this out for about 7 hours now and since I don't have any hair left to pull out I'm turning to these hallowed pages. I have searched for solutions here again and again.

System: Mac OS X 10.7.5 Leopard, Xcode 4.5.2

I installed homebrew and have updated it multiple times I used homebrew to install rvm and have updated it multiple times I installed git

The standard ruby on the system (checking with $ ruby -v) is 1.8.7

My problem is that every time I try to use rvm to install a new version of Ruby ($ rvm install 1.9.3) I get the following error:

Ruby (and needed base gems) for your selection will be installed shortly.
Before it happens, please read and execute the instructions below.
Please use a separate terminal to execute any additional commands.

  Notes for Mac OS X 10.7.5, Xcode 4.5.2.

For JRuby:  Install the JDK. See http://developer.apple.com/java/download/  # Current Java version "1.6.0_26"
For IronRuby: Install Mono >= 2.6
For Ruby 1.9.3: Install libksba # If using Homebrew, 'brew install libksba'
For Opal: Install Nodejs with NPM. See http://nodejs.org/download/

To use an RVM installed Ruby as default, instead of the system ruby:

    rvm install 1.8.7 # installs patch 357: closest supported version
    rvm system ; rvm gemset export system.gems ; rvm 1.8.7 ; rvm gemset import system.gems # migrate your gems
    rvm alias create default 1.8.7

And reopen your terminal windows.

Xcode and gcc:

:

I have performed $ brew install libksba and when I try to do it again it tells me that libksba is installed already.

When I type "$ rvm requirements" I get:

      Notes for Mac OS X 10.7.5, Xcode 4.5.2.

For JRuby:  Install the JDK. See http://developer.apple.com/java/download/  # Current Java version "1.6.0_26"
For IronRuby: Install Mono >= 2.6
For Ruby 1.9.3: Install libksba # If using Homebrew, 'brew install libksba'
For Opal: Install Nodejs with NPM. See http://nodejs.org/download/

To use an RVM installed Ruby as default, instead of the system ruby:

    rvm install 1.8.7 # installs patch 357: closest supported version
    rvm system ; rvm gemset export system.gems ; rvm 1.8.7 ; rvm gemset import system.gems # migrate your gems
    rvm alias create default 1.8.7

And reopen your terminal windows.

Xcode and gcc:

Right now Ruby requires gcc to compile, but Xcode 4.2 and later no longer ship with gcc. Instead they ship with llvm-gcc (to which gcc is a symlink) and clang, neither of which are supported for building Ruby. Xcode 4.1 was the last version to ship gcc, which was /usr/bin/gcc-4.2.

Xcode 4.1 and earlier:
- Ruby will build fine.

Xcode 4.2 and later (including Command Line Tools for Xcode):
- If you have gcc-4.2 (and friends) from an earlier Xcode version, Ruby will build fine.
- If you don't have gcc-4.2, you have two options to get it:
 * Install apple-gcc42 from Homebrew
 * Install osx-gcc-installer

  Homebrew:

  If you are using Homebrew, you can install the apple-gcc42 and required libraries from homebrew/dupes:

      brew update
      brew tap homebrew/dupes
      brew install autoconf automake apple-gcc42
      rvm pkg install openssl

  Xcode 4.2+ install or/and Command Line Tools for Xcode is required to provide make and other tools.

  osx-gcc-installer:

  If you don't use Homebrew, you can download and install osx-gcc-installer: https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer.

  Warning: Installing osx-gcc-installer on top of a recent Xcode is known to cause problems, so you must uninstall Xcode before installing osx-gcc-installer. Afterwards you may install Xcode 4.2+ or Command Line Tools for Xcode if you desire.

  ** NOTE: Currently, Node.js is having issues building with osx-gcc-installer. The only fix is to install Xcode over osx-gcc-installer.

So I assume I have to do something with brew update brew tap homebrew/dupes brew install autoconf automake apple-gcc42 rvm pkg install openssl

Everything seemed to work fine until "$ rvm pkg install openssl", which returns:

Fetching openssl-1.0.1c.tar.gz to /Users/thierinvestmentservices/.rvm/archives
Extracting openssl to /Users/thierinvestmentservices/.rvm/src/openssl-1.0.1c
Configuring openssl in /Users/thierinvestmentservices/.rvm/src/openssl-1.0.1c.
Compiling openssl in /Users/thierinvestmentservices/.rvm/src/openssl-1.0.1c.
Error running 'make', please read /Users/thierinvestmentservices/.rvm/log/openssl/make.log

Please note that it's required to reinstall all rubies:

    rvm reinstall all --force

Updating openssl certificates
Error running 'update_openssl_certs', please read /Users/thierinvestmentservices/.rvm/log/openssl.certs.log
Johns-MacBook-Pro:~ thierinvestmentservices$ rvm pkg install openssl
Fetching openssl-1.0.1c.tar.gz to /Users/thierinvestmentservices/.rvm/archives
Extracting openssl to /Users/thierinvestmentservices/.rvm/src/openssl-1.0.1c
Configuring openssl in /Users/thierinvestmentservices/.rvm/src/openssl-1.0.1c.
Compiling openssl in /Users/thierinvestmentservices/.rvm/src/openssl-1.0.1c.
Error running 'make', please read /Users/thierinvestmentservices/.rvm/log/openssl/make.log

Please note that it's required to reinstall all rubies:

    rvm reinstall all --force

Updating openssl certificates
Error running 'update_openssl_certs', please read /Users/thierinvestmentservices/.rvm/log/openssl.certs.log

make.log reads

"[2012-11-23 13:15:28] make
/Users/thierinvestmentservices/.rvm/scripts/functions/utility: line 116: make: command not found"

and openssl.certs.log reads

"[2012-11-23 14:04:04] update_openssl_certs
update_openssl_certs () 
{ 
    ( chpwd_functions="" builtin cd $rvm_usr_path/ssl && command curl -O http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem && mv cacert.pem cert.pem )
}
current path: /Users/thierinvestmentservices
command(1): update_openssl_certs
/Users/thierinvestmentservices/.rvm/scripts/functions/pkg: line 205: cd: /Users/thierinvestmentservices/.rvm/usr/ssl: No such file or directory"

At this point the letters might as well be wingdings I have no idea what is going on. I have tried to install rvm make with something I saw on one forum post but I got a bunch of warnings. If anyone has any suggestions I would be deeply grateful, I am completely in over my head,