From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-07-14T13:53:20+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.9 mac install problems


On Jul 13, 2011, at 20:46 , Marshall Farrier wrote:

> Following Dave Thomas' instructions in Programming Ruby 1.9, p. 7, I got
> MacPorts for my MacBook Pro (Snow Leopard, version 10.6.8), then ran
> sudo port install ruby19 from command line, which took a while and
> looked like it succeeded. But after the install (and after rebooting),
> I'm still showing Ruby 1.8.7 when I type $ ruby -v from command line.
> 
> I'm kind of guessing that it might be a path issue, but how do I change
> things around so that I can code in 1.9 (without messing anything up
> that potentially relies on 1.8.7)?

Set up your path so that /opt/local/bin (I'm assuming that for macports) is in the front.

eg: PATH=/opt/local/bin:$PATH