From: Xeno Campanoli / Eskimo North and Gmail Date: 2010-05-01T06:45:10+09:00 Subject: Re: Setting to Ruby 1.9 in Ubuntu... Walton Hoops wrote: > On 4/30/2010 2:36 PM, Xeno Campanoli / Eskimo North and Gmail wrote: >> Jason Roelofs wrote: >> >> root@rockhopper:~# gem install rvm >> ******************************************************************************** >> >> >> In order to setup rvm for your user's environment you must now run >> rvm-install. >> rvm-install will be found in your current gems bin directory >> corresponding to where the gem was installed. >> >> rvm-install will install the scripts to your user account and append >> itself to your profiles in order to >> inject the proper rvm functions into your shell so that you can >> manage multiple rubies. >> >> ******************************************************************************** >> >> Successfully installed rvm-0.1.27 >> 1 gem installed >> Installing ri documentation for rvm-0.1.27... >> Installing RDoc documentation for rvm-0.1.27... >> root@rockhopper:~# rvm install 1.9.1 >> No command 'rvm' found, but there are 20 similar ones >> rvm: command not found >> root@rockhopper:~# which rvm >> root@rockhopper:~# >> > > This is because the location that Debian/Ubuntu's version of rubygems > puts gem executable is not in your path by default, one of many problems > you avoid if you install from source. I don't recall where Debian dumps > them off the top of my head, but I'll check when I get home. That said, > I _highly_ recommend installing from source instead of using Ubuntu's > version. You avoid several headaches that way. > > Yes, you know in some settings I really want to stay with a simple set of repeatable and well known standards. I need to wait on 1.9 I think until it actually 'comes out' for this project. Thanks again. -- "It's the preponderance, stupid!" - Professor Stephen Schneider, IPCC member