Unable to install any ruby version through rvm on a Mac M1 Silicon Chip

Question

Example of Error response:

TTRAN-YK0WK9W9PM:virtual_terminal tuantran$ rvm install 2.7.6
ruby-2.7.6 - #removing src/ruby-2.7.6..
Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time.
No binary rubies available for: osx/12.3/arm64/ruby-2.7.6.
Continuing with compilation. Please read 'rvm help mount' to get more information on binary rubies.
Checking requirements for osx.
Certificates bundle '/usr/local/etc/[email protected]/cert.pem' is already up to date.
Requirements installation successful.
Installing Ruby from source to: /Users/tuantran/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.7.6, this may take a while depending on your cpu(s)...
ruby-2.7.6 - #downloading ruby-2.7.6, this may take a while depending on your connection...
ruby-2.7.6 - #extracting ruby-2.7.6 to /Users/tuantran/.rvm/src/ruby-2.7.6.....
ruby-2.7.6 - #configuring.........................................................................
ruby-2.7.6 - #post-configuration.
ruby-2.7.6 - #compiling......................................................
Error running '__rvm_make -j10',
please read /Users/tuantran/.rvm/log/1658248808_ruby-2.7.6/make.log

There has been an error while running make. Halting the installation.

Solution: https://github.com/rvm/rvm/issues/5153

1. Right click Terminal from the Application/Utilities folder, Get Info, tick the "Open using Rosetta" box.
2. Uninstall Homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall.sh)"
rm -rf /opt/homebrew/*
sudo rm -rf /opt/homebrew

3. Reinstall Homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

4. Restart terminal
5. Check Homebrew is working fine: brew doctor
6. Reinstall openssl: brew install openssl
7. Install Ruby: rvm install 2.7 Or any version

Helpless

github.com/rvm/rvm/issues/5153#issuecomment-1301062739 Worked for me – Nonconformance

Answer 1

The following worked for me ruby version 3.3.0 -

You can check the path of the ssl directory in your system with the command given below.

brew --prefix openssl@3

After that run the below command with the SSL directory path

rvm reinstall 3.3.0 --with-openssl-dir=your ssl directory path

rvm reinstall 3.3.0 --with-openssl-dir=/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@3

Wash

This worked perfectly and got me past the OpenSSL error. – Concordance

Worked, after hours of searching. Thanks. – Villa

Answer 2

The following worked for me - https://github.com/rvm/rvm/issues/5153#issuecomment-1301062739

brew install libffi
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/libffi/lib/pkgconfig"
LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/libffi/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/opt/libffi/include" rvm install 2.5.1

Nonconformance

Answer 3

I faced similar issue while installing 2.7.2. How I was able to resolve it was changing the current version of openssl.

First find out what is the current version of openssl

openssl version

ruby 2.7.2 is compatible with [email protected].

So first install it using brew

arch -arm64 brew install [email protected]

To switch to [email protected] open up editor

nano ~/.zshrc or nano ~/.bash  

Add these lines

export LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix [email protected])/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix [email protected])/include"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$(brew --prefix [email protected])/lib/pkgconfig"
export PATH="$(brew --prefix [email protected])/bin:$PATH"

Save and exit. Restart the terminal.

Confirm if the openssl version is now set to 1.1 or not.

Then finally

arch -arm64 rvm install 2.7.2

Jannelle

Answer 4

A simple uninstall and install of brew and rvm did the trick for me.

• uninstall rvm
• uninstall brew
• make sure that in none of your dotfiles openssl libs are added to your path
• update to the latest xcode command line tools
• install brew
• do not manually install openssl
• install rvm
• instal any ruby version you like

please do not install brew or start the terminal with rosetta, this will slow down massively more or less everything.

edit: it looks like this works only for ruby versions >= 2.7.2 ruby versions prior to 2.7.2 will have the same issue.

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