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how to solve "ruby installation is missing psych" error?

I used rvm to install ruby 1.9.3. even though it was successfully installed, it complained about libyaml. and now every time i wanna install a gem (say rails) this warning shows up:

It seems your ruby installation is missing psych (for YAML output). To eliminate this warning, please install libyaml and reinstall your ruby.

I use Mac os X 10.7 (Lion).

Solution

  • In my case

    rvm pkg install libyaml

    and 

    rvm reinstall ruby-1.9.3-p125

    solved the problem.

    For people using Ubuntu, make sure that libtool is installed prior to the steps above:

    sudo apt-get install libtool

    For macOS users (with homebrew):

    rm -rf /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/ && brew reinstall ruby