From: Zayd Connor <devrubygem@...>
Date: 2009-04-07T05:52:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Help! Window user needs help installing ruby 1.9 on mac

Dom wrote:
> On Apr 4, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Zayd Connor wrote:
> 
>> Ben Lovell wrote:
>>> Great. You'll find macports pretty handy for installing many things.
>>
>> Cool. One thing I'm noticing is when I type /usr/bin/ruby -v it is
>> giving me version 1.8, when I'm compiling my code how do I know which
>> version of ruby I'm using? 1.9 is installed in my /opt/local/lib
> 
> at the prompt, type which ruby <return> and that will give you the
> path to the executable
> 
> also, you might want to check your PATH env variable to make sure it's
> finding the right one first, although I think OSX has a mechanism for
> switching that's kind of a half baked version of the Linux
> alternatives mechanism for switching between various versions of
> "stuff". Although, in fairness this seems to work quite well for java
> on the mac. Anyway, check your path with either echo $PATH of env
> commands and see what it says. You may have to force it by modifying
> the path in .bash_profile in your home directory (assuming bash) or
> some other file that's modifying your path variable. Hope that helps.

Sorry but I cannot find the file to modify my path env variable.

Thanks
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