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Some people have been reporting some problems running SwitchTower on the Mac. The problem lies with the fact that, once again, Apple seems to have messed something up with their default install of Ruby.

If you encounter problems with SwitchTower hanging on the Mac, please try installing Ruby either manually, or using one of the port systems for OSX (darwinports or fink).

Note that if you do reinstall Ruby this way, you’ll need to do a few things afterwards:

1. backup and then delete the ruby, irb, and ri in /usr/bin.
2. reinstall any extension libs and gems (like SwitchTower and its dependencies, Net::SSH and Needle).