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Recurring Issues Installing Ruby C Extensions on OSX Mojave
Thu, Mar 7, 2019 - ~400 Words

Recently I have had to take the time to fix failed installations of Ruby libraries which build C extensions on Mojave in multiple development environments and across multiple versions of Ruby. The solution(s) are in the end thankfully quite straightforward.

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Readline Problems With Ruby on OSX
Fri, Mar 1, 2019 - ~200 Words
A recurring issue with running a Ruby development environment on OSX is integrations with external libraries, particularly readline. As various elements of the setup evolve (e.g. OSX, Homebrew, Ruby, rbenv) breakage occurs which causes development time to be spent debugging basic machine issues. The relevant error message and failure, issued by byebug was: Sorry, you can't use byebug without Readline. To solve this, you need to rebuild Ruby with Readline support.
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Install MacVim on OSX
Sat, Feb 16, 2019 - ~100 Words

TLDR

brew cask install macvim

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