Baby Steps

Interesting afternoon yesterday. I tried to install Jacob Evans' Tinderbox MCP Server (experimental). I was finally able to get everything wired up this morning, but I think I learned a few things along the way. The first thing was that I had to install the latest version of Ruby. MacOS 26 ships with version 2.6, and the MCP requires 3.1 or greater with Bundler. My Terminal-fu is weak, but Claude kind of walked me through it. Once that was installed, Claude walked me through the GIT commands to install the server. The instructions are all in the ReadMe, but I kept a running commentary with Claude verify I was on the right path. (More about paths in a minute.) Finally, I had to edit the Claude Desktop Configuration file. Again, instructions are in the ReadMe. It didn't work. I'd share the chat, but it's very long. Here's what was ultimately the main problem. The ReadMe says this is how your config file should read: { "mcpServers": { "tinderbox": { "command": "ruby", "args":…