Ruby One-Click Installer

Ruby One-Click Installer is the easiest way to set up Ruby on your Mac. It works just like the Windows version, making it super simple!

What Does It Do?

This handy tool fixes the broken Readline library and updates to a newer version of SQLite3. Plus, it gets your Mac ready for Rails, which needs at least Ruby 1.8.4 to work properly. The latest version of Ruby is 1.8.6 (though 1.8.5 is best for Rails) along with Rubygems 0.9.4.

A Small Yet Powerful Package

The goal here is to keep things small while being a Universal Binary that supports all kinds of Macs—whether you have Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, or Leopard! You won’t have to deal with any complicated setups or need Apple’s Developer Tools (Xcode) installed.

Easy Installation and Removal

The Ruby One-Click Installer will add everything you need right into /usr/local, without messing with Apple’s original Ruby setup. So if you ever want to uninstall it or switch back to Apple’s version, it’s super easy!

What’s Included?

Here’s what you get in this package:

• Ruby 1.8.6: The amazing Ruby scripting language


• SQLite 3.4.0: An ACID-compliant relational database management system


• Mongrel 1.0.1 (+dependencies): For all your HTTP needs.


• Ruby/LDAP 0.9.7: Interfaces with LDAP servers


• Ragel State Machine Compiler 5.22: A fast finite state machine compiler


• Rubygems 0.9.4: The top ruby packaging system around!


• Gem: sqlite3-ruby (1.2.1): SQLite3 package for Ruby


• Gem: daemons (1.0.6): Wrap existing ruby scripts to run as daemons


• Gem: rake (0.7.3): A make-like utility for Ruby projects.

If you're ready to get started with Ruby on your Mac, check out the Ruby One-Click Installer here!