Major changes to the way I am going about installing things with regard to Mavericks DP8, and its bipolar behavior. Alas, I have everything working, so time to commit for now, and run a time machine backup so I no longer have to deal with a
n all-day process of installing applications, configurations, settings, gems, etc. - Have more to add, but maybe this will help others who are having issues setting up their dev environment with OS X Mavericks 10.9