From: "Steven R." <steverummel@...>
Date: 2006-07-15T09:30:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Mac OSX Ruby Configuration Question - solved

Elliot Temple wrote:
> 
> 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/
> 
> 
> 
> 

I learned something new today. Your solution worked.

Many thanks!

BTW - it is rather odd - changing .profile did nothing. It was only 
adding the path to .bash_profile that did the trick.