Getting Ruby 1.8.7 installed on Mountain Lion (10.8)

Question

I\'m having a lot of trouble getting Ruby 1.8.7 installed on my clean install of Mountain Lion. I\'ve looked around on Stack Overflow and don\'t see anything that specifical

Answer 1

Latest Xcode provides only clang - not GNU gcc, you need to install gcc-4.2 to be able to compile Ruby 1.8.7 properly, following command will show available options:

rvm requirements

currently only ruby 1.9.3-p125 and later has limited support for clang, but this is limited support, and still errors can be found.