A Convenient Truth

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Argues for no sudo in development and demonstrates the practical replacement: Homebrew on OS X and RVM to manage Rubies and gemsets. Shows that using sudo to gem install breaks isolation and compatibility with RVM, and that RVM runs specs across real Ruby versions like 1.8.6 and 1.9.2. Lists required packages (curl, bison, Xcode) and common services (MySQL, Cassandra), links to a blog install script, and offers hands-on setup help.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:23Meet the speaker
3. 3:21Perfect development environment
4. 4:03Sudo in development
5. 5:32macOS package manager
6. 6:17Setup tools and dependencies
7. 7:02Ruby Version Manager
8. 8:31Q&A
9. 9:35Engine Yard’s Ruby support

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