Let's Build: With Ruby on Rails - Installation - Rails 5.1

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Installing both Ruby and Rails can be quite the challenge. Luckily, this day and age there are some sweet tools to help us better manage our development environments as well as increase the productivity of our coding workflow.

Ruby on Rails requires, you guessed it, Ruby and Rails to work. Both of these things can be installed using what are known as gems. The gem concept is likely familiar if you've ever used npm or yarn to install any type of package/plugin in your past.

Gems are built with ruby at their core so it makes sense that they are a large part of building a ruby on rails application.

Installation

The easiest way to install Ruby on Rails is by following a free guide over at installrails.com. This guide will go over everything you need to understand to install the framework successfully on your system of choice. Ruby comes preloaded on most Macintosh systems but you will likely want to make use of a more modern version of the language. Rather than type out each type of the process, I invite you to follow along with me in the video to better understand the things we are installing and see just how I install them on my machine.

After the install, I end up with the following versions. Your mileage may vary:

Rails 5.1.4 Ruby 2.4.2

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