Question

I am trying for the first time to install some Ruby gems on Mac OS X Leopard. Please see the command and the output below. My question is how do I install a gem with dependencies? I tried installing individual dependency gems first from a locally downloaded files but I soon found out that there is no end to the rabbit hole 🙂 I also found out that there are circular dependencies that break even this tedious method. There must be a better way! I would really appreciate your help.

sudo gem install oauth  
Updating metadata for 1 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org  
.  
complete  
ERROR:  Error installing oauth:  
 oauth requires actionpack (>= 2.2.0, < 2.3.0)  

Answer 1

try

sudo gem install --include-dependencies oauth

if that doesn work

try installing rails (actionpack is part of rails) first

sudo gem install rails
sudo gem install oauth