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Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, object-oriented, general-purpose programming language.

MAMP

  • Make Ruby directly available on the command line
    Check this option to make the current Ruby version available on the command line. MAMP PRO uses aliases to provide this functionality. When this option is checked the following is added to your ~/.profile file.
alias erb='/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/erb'
alias gem='/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/gem'
alias irb='/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/irb'
alias rake='/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/rake'
alias rdoc='/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/rdoc'
alias ri='/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/ri'
alias ruby='/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/ruby'
alias rails='/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/rails'