From: Ast Jay Date: 2010-09-30T22:39:09+09:00 Subject: Re: Can't upgrade ruby on Snow Leopard Jose Hales-Garcia wrote: > On Sep 29, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Ast Jay wrote: > >> echo $SHELL gives me: >> >> /bin/bash >> >> mate .profile gives me: >> >> export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH" >> >> I'm on OSX 10.6.4 > > I did a test and found that .bash_profile overrides .profile. You > should check that you don't have a .bash_profile file with a $PATH > definition of its own. > > I don't fully understand the subtle interactions of Bash resource files > (I use TCSH myself), but you might try renaming .profile to > .bash_profile. > > Jose > ....................................................... > Jose Hales-Garcia > UCLA Department of Statistics > jose.halesgarcia@stat.ucla.edu This is the content of my .bash_profile: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin if [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] ; then source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ; fi [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" I have replaced it's contents with that of my .profile - and it works! Think it will be safe tho? (I uninstalled RVM so guess so?) Thanks for your help btw Jose! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.