From: Jim Menard Date: 2005-01-07T01:10:02+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Install/Upgrade OS X Panther 10.3 jotto wrote: > Yes, it definitely is 1.8.2 in /usr/local/bin. What does it mean to add > it to the front of my path, just type that out every time I want to > access the newer version of Ruby? Or do I edit some shell file? Where > is that file? How can I open it? The file ~/.bash_profile gets executed when you log in and the file ~/.bashrc gets executed when you open a Terminal window. I'd put something like this into ~/.bash_profile: export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH Jim -- Jim Menard, jimm@io.com, http://www.io.com/~jimm