From: Jonathan Nielsen <jonathan@...>
Date: 2010-05-01T07:37:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Setting to Ruby 1.9 in Ubuntu...

>
> No it won't, he's installed the Debian version of rubygems, which puts
> the gem executables in /var/lib/gems/<version>/bin, which is not in the
> default path. It can, however be added by putting:
>
> export PATH=/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin:$PATH
> at the end of ~./bashrc
>

Well, that's precisely what I did on mine to install rvm atop Ubuntu's
ruby+rubygems, and it put rvm-install in /usr/bin... on Ubuntu 9.10 at
least.

That's all I use the Ubuntu packaged ruby for - installing rvm so I
can mess around with different ruby versions :)

-Jonathan Nielsen