From: Richard Lawrence <rwl@...>
Date: 2007-06-26T01:30:10+09:00
Subject: Re: OS X reads builtin version of ruby

Do you have a non-native Python installed?

When I followed the HiveLogic directions for installing Ruby (found 
here: 
http://hivelogic.com/narrative/articles/ruby-rails-mongrel-mysql-osx), I 
found that OS X would find the correct version of Ruby until I quit 
Terminal and re-opened it.  The problem, it turned out, was Python:  the 
line Python installs in ~/.bash_profile seemed to be overriding the PATH 
setting in ~/.bash_login that the HiveLogic article advised.

My solution was to move the Python line from .bash_profile, and include 
it in .bash_login.  I then deleted .bash_profile (or rather, moved it to 
.bash_profile.bad.) My .bash_login now looks like this:

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export 
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:${PATH}"
export RUBYOPT="-rubygems"
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which seems to work like a charm.  I'm not all that knowledgeable about 
this stuff, though, so you may better off editing .bashrc, as Herbie 
advised.

Herbie Fitzgerald wrote:
>> You need to update your PATH in ~/.bashrc. profile/bash_profile are run 
>> for
>> login shells. Starting a terminal isn't neessarily going to run a login
>> shell.
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