How to avoid “cannot load such file — utils/popen” from homebrew on OSX

Question

I\'m getting an error when I run brew in the terminal:

 /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core         


        

Answer 1

First, open a terminal session and run:

cd /usr/local/
git status

to see if Homebrew is clean.

If it's dirty, run:

git reset --hard && git clean -df

then

brew doctor
brew update

If it's still broken, try this in your session:

sudo rm /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/Current
sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8 /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/Current

This will force Homebrew to use Ruby 1.8 from the system's installation.