Ruby Gem install Json fails on Mavericks and Xcode 5.1 - unknown argument: '-multiply_definedsuppress'

Question

I was trying run gem install json and got the following error

Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

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Answer 1

To address the issue you can install the most recent version of ruby as described by @Sash. You can use the following commands to do so. In case you already have installed rvm, you don't need to reinstall it.

#Install rvm
\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

#Install ruby version 2.0.0-p451
rvm install ruby-2.0.0-p451

#Print ruby version to verify that it was installed successfully
ruby -v

#Install json gem
sudo gem install json