HomeBrew Mac os x 10.8 throwing errors "no such file to load"

Question

Whenever I run the brew command on this Mac os Machine i get the following error

> brew doctor
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/macos.rb:251:in `require': no such file to load -- macos/xcode (LoadError)
    from /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/macos.rb:251
    from /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb:3:in `require'
    from /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb:3
    from /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/global.rb:7:in `require'
    from /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/global.rb:7
    from /usr/local/bin/brew:17:in `require'
    from /usr/local/bin/brew:17

I have everything the web had to offer. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

I had the same problem and resolved it by

cd /usr/local
git status

If git status shows a long list of things have been deleted then this is likely your problem and was probably caused by a change to your RVM setup.

To fix this, do:

git reset --hard

Now try:

brew update

It might say that you need to remove some files first. Remove each file in that list with the sudo rm command. Then do brew update again.

Also you might need to do:

sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local

before you can run brew install.

I used github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/18600 as a reference.