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After spending hours trying to figure out what went wrong with my Rails installation, I've decided it will be easiest to simply start over and begin everything anew.

I can't simply uninstall rails - I get tons of errors. How can I just delete everything and get my Mac back to a fresh start?

Soup
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user3029668
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    How did you try to remove Rails? What errors did you get? How did you install Rails? These questions may help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2430059/how-do-i-completely-uninstall-rails-ruby-and-rubygems http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16164697/uninstall-rails-completely – Soup Nov 25 '13 at 01:36
  • If you are using rvm, you can do rvm implode. To uninstall the rails gem uninstall rails – hwatkins Nov 25 '13 at 01:39
  • i can't even see what gems i have this is my message - gem list /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/psych.rb:205:in `parse': (): could not find expected ':' while scanning a simple key at line 3 column 1 (Psych::SyntaxError) from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/psych.rb:205:in `parse_stream' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:46:in `run' from /usr/bin/gem:21:in `
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  • the error went much longer but i cut it off b/c there were too many characters. – user3029668 Nov 25 '13 at 02:05
  • by the way, thanks very much for your help – user3029668 Nov 25 '13 at 02:05
  • [I had a similar issue. Maybe my solution will help?][1] [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18934716/undefined-method-require-relative-for-mainobject-nomethoderror/19942026?noredirect=1#19942026 – drewwyatt Nov 25 '13 at 06:42

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Moving forward, use RVM, then if something goes wrong, instead of spending hours, you just destroy it in RVM and start from scratch in minutes.

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