Getting a “bad interpreter” error when using brew

Question

I\'m getting this error when I try to run any brew command.

Holger-Sindbaeks-MacBook-Air:~ holgersindbaek$ brew help
-bash: /usr/local/bin/brew: /usr/bin/rub         


        

Answer 1

At the risk of oversimplifying things, try running

gem install bundler

I was transitioning my Ruby environment from RBENV to RVM and it worked for me.

Answer 2

Fix:

sudo gem install cocoapods

Answer 3

I got this error (much the same):

/usr/local/bin/brew: /usr/local/Library/brew.rb: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby: bad interpreter: No such file or directory /usr/local/bin/brew: line 26: /usr/local/Library/brew.rb: Undefined error: 0

and fixed by the solution below:

1. Open brew.rb:

   $ sudo vim /usr/local/Library/brew.rb
   

2. Change the first line's 1.8 to Current:

   Before:

   #!/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby -W0
   

   After:

   #!/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/Current/usr/bin/ruby -W0
   

Then brew works for me. Hope it helps if any other one got this issue. :)

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If you get the error

Homebrew requires Leopard or higher. For Tiger support, see: https://github.com/mistydemeo/tigerbrew

change the MACOS check from <10.5 to <10.

Tip by @TimCastelijns:

10.5 doesn't work because in comparison, it's higher than 10.10 (.1 vs .5). I added a check (and MACOS_VERSION != 10.10) instead of lowering from 10.5 to 10.

Answer 4

None of the above worked for me, so I kept browsing and found this answer, https://stackoverflow.com/a/24225960/1359088 which did fix brew for me. He says in step 1 to install XCode 6 command line tools, but doesn't say how; use this command:

xcode-select --install

Answer 5

This happened because I needed to update brew - in the updated version it already uses Current ruby

cd /usr/local
git pull -q origin refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master

This solved the problem

Answer 6

You need to change the path for Ruby.Framework

I solved it with commands as mentioned.

1. brew install cocoapods --build-from-source

2. brew link --overwrite cocoapods

If you have a lower version below Xcode 11, you have to remove it before you use the above commands.

Reference: Ruby Framework issue