Extism gem fails to load on Ruby 3.3.0 on macOS about extism HOT 6 CLOSED

It might make sense to include the missing curl step on that page (even though there are other options), to make it easier to follow the directions as a simple step-by-step process (and allow those who want to dig into the alternative methods to follow the link).

It so common for READMEs to include several different pages (do this on Red Hat, this on Ubuntu, this on Windows, this on Mac, etc.) that I tend to scan the commands and mentally filter out the ones that don't seem to apply. In this case that strategy failed me.

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Oops! Missed the sudo extism lib install step, and the fact that there were off-page steps needed:

curl https://get.extism.org/cli | sh

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hey @brandondrew! glad you got it working

there were off-page steps needed

do you recall which of these steps weren't on the doc you used to get started? would like to fix that

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@nilslice yeah, the curl step was not on the page I was reading: https://extism.org/docs/quickstart/host-quickstart

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You could just include a note next to the curl step that building from source and using Nix are also alternative options.

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I see, thanks! Yea, linking to a single page is really an effort for us to reduce the amount of changes needed in case the curl install instructions change. will bring it up to the team and see - appreciate your feedback!

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