From: "Steven R." <steverummel@...>
Date: 2006-07-15T08:10:06+09:00
Subject: Mac OSX Ruby Configuration Question

I recently installed Ruby 1.8.4 on my iMac, running OSX 10.4. Ruby, 
Rails, etc. run great and I am working through Ruby for Rails (great 
book, BTW).

I installed ruby in /usr/local so as not to conflict with the version 
(1.8.2) used by OSX.

Now, I have to type "/usr/local/bin" before all Ruby commands, and 
similar to use rails, rubygems, etc.

This is causing several problems with gems as well, as the Mongrel 
webserver (for example) requires 1.8.4, and if you try to install it via 
gem it dies - it is smart enough to see the 'system' version, but not 
the /usr/local version and won't let you install it on an 'old' system.

I tried Google-ing for $PATH configurations, because I know it has to be 
a simple fix to let me run "ruby -v" (or whatever) at a prompt pretty 
much anywhere and have my system use the /usr/local version (1.8.4) 
instead of 1.8.2, but I just can't figure it out.

Paste of relevant issue from terminal session below, including $PATH in 
case I made a non-obvious (to me) error there.

Alpha:~ srummel$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.0]
Alpha:~ srummel$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/mysql/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin
Alpha:~ srummel$ /usr/local/bin/ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-darwin8.7.0]
Alpha:~ srummel$

I searched this forum as well, and read through the various installation 
guides - if it is there, I missed or misunderstood it. Guidance, even 
flames (with a link or winning Google search text), would be welcome.

Many thanks in advance.