Common Installfest Issues

• Some older macs can't support installing a sufficiently advanced version of XCode needed to compile Ruby. On the plus side, it is possible to install Ruby without XCode on a mac! Try following the instructions here. You may need to install gcc or clang separately first. You can find download links for different mac OS versions here.

• With Mavericks, last time we kept having security/open-ssl issues with RVM. For some machines, it took a combination of changing RubyGems to download via http vs https (yes, this was not a good solution, but it worked in a pinch) and updating SSL for RVM. Here are a few tips on dealing with RVM open-ssl cert issues.

• Make sure everyone has admin rights on their accounts before beginning.

• Triage early! Some people's machines require more help than others, and we want to start working with them ASAP.

• If everything is really looking dire at the end of the evening, consider getting them set up on nitrous.io.

• In progress: a Railsbridge-specific VM put together by Troy.