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Install Homebrew on macOS

Install Homebrew on macOS - Ruby on Rails Tutorial

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Install Homebrew on macOS

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- [Instructor] In this movie we will install Homebrew Homebrew is a package manager, which makes it easier to find, install, and manage open source software. Installing Homebrew is going to make it easier. to install the other components that we'll need. We'll get started by visiting the website for the Homebrew project, that's at https://brew.sh. When you visit that page in a browser you'll get information about Homebrew and it will give you up-to-date instructions about how to install it. You'll see that right here it tells us to install Homebrew we need to paste this line into the macOS terminal prompt. Now, before we do that let's just look at what this line does. It uses a program called Curl, right here, to access this URL that's going to download some software and it's going to use Ruby to execute that software. We already have Ruby installed on our Mac by default. If you do ruby -v in the terminal window it'll tell…

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