From: Elliot Temple <curi@...>
Date: 2006-07-15T08:51:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Mac OSX Ruby Configuration Question


On Jul 14, 2006, at 4:40 PM, Steven R. wrote:

> Elliot Temple wrote:
>> On Jul 14, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Eric Hodel wrote:
>>> On Jul 14, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Steven R. wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> mv /usr/bin/ruby /usr/bin/ruby182-orig
>>>
>>> You may need to do the same with irb, ri, rdoc and testrb.
>>>
>>> Beware, updates from 10.x.y to 10.x.z may restore /usr/bin/ruby.
>> won't that mess up anything that tries to use the system version?
>> i think the solution is to add to your path in your .profile
>> -- Elliot Temple
>> http://www.curi.us/blog/
>
> Thank you for the help -
>
> Per my original post, my path already includes the path:
>
> Alpha:~ srummel$ echo $PATH
> /usr/local/mysql/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin
> Alpha:~ srummel$ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.0]
> Alpha:~ srummel$ /usr/local/bin/ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-darwin8.7.0]
> Alpha:~ srummel$
>
> Is there some other issue involved?

oh oops.

well the places in the path are tried in order. so just put the /usr/ 
local/bin before /usr/bin

-- Elliot Temple
http://www.curi.us/blog/