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[macOS] ruby installer for homebrew deprecated

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
bash, ruby
Domain
cli, documentation

Research direction

Locate the interactive walkthrough section containing the Homebrew installation command and its screenshots. Compare the instructions with the current brew.sh command, then verify whether the screenshots remain accurate; done means the guide uses current instructions or links to the official installation guide.

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Description

The interactive walkthrough seems to contain instructions to run the installer for homebrew like this:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

It has been reported in the gitter, that this command exits with a deprecation message.

The Ruby Homebrew installer is now deprecated and has been rewritten in
Bash.

According to the brew.sh website the new installation command should be

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

It needs to be checked if the current screenshots in the guide are still valid after changing the command.

I still have the opinion, that we should just link to the brew installation instructions, rather than having the step-by-step instructions in the guide.

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