From: Mitchell Gould <mitchellgould7@...>
Date: 2010-08-17T19:59:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Intstalled Ruby 1.8.7 but still getting ruby -v => 1.8.6

Brian Candler wrote:
> Mitchell Gould wrote:
>> I have followed the instructions to install ruby 1.8.7.
> 
> Which instructions? What did you do? On what platform? The question 
> as-is is missing important information.

I followed these instructions that were posted on this forum.

http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/154868


> 
>> However when I run the command
>> 
>> ruby -v
>> 
>> I get
>> 
>> ruby 1.8.6 (2009-06-08 patchlevel 369) [universal-darwin9.0]
> 
> Then I can guess you're on a Mac, at least.
> 
>> Why is that?
> 
> "which ruby" will tell you where it found it. Presumably your other 
> installation is either not in $PATH or is later in $PATH; or it was 
> installed under a different name (e.g. "ruby187" instead of "ruby").
> 
>> Also do I have to tell my Rails application to use 1.8.7 and if so how
>> do I do this?
> 
> You will probably need to reinstall all your gems, including rails, 
> using 1.8.7 so they will go in 1.8.7's gems directory. If you build ruby 
> from source, then you will likely need to build rubygems itself from 
> source first.

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