Take bricestacey's advice, use RVM. I was in the same boat as you when getting started with Ruby - it seemed like I was always fighting with gems and other depe

Take bricestacey's advice, use RVM. I was in the same boat as you when getting started with Ruby - it seemed like I was always fighting with gems and other dependencies - "there has to be a better way!", I thought. And there was... I read this article[1] and it changed my life. [1]http://sirupsen.com/get-started-right-with-rvm/ http://sirupsen.com/get-started-right-with-rvm/