Ruby problem

[Phil Dobbin]

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On 09/03/2012 10:35, Rainer Müller wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 03/09/2012 06:53 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
>> I've got iTerm2 running with six tabs. In each tab I've issued the
>> command `rvm --default use 1.9.3` to set my ruby version. So in one
>> shell I'll have a Rails project, another node.js, another $HOME/dev
>> running git & so on.
> 
> As far as I understand it on their website [1], rvm modifies your PATH
> variable to switch between different versions of a tool.
> 
> Please check to what typing ruby in your shell refers with the command
> 'which ruby'. I assume it returns something like
> "/Users/foo/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3/bin/ruby" as explained on the
> website. Also check where this symlink points to.
> 
>> In one shell I clone a repository from git (repl) & switch shells to do
>> a port search for a recommended dependent (rlwrap). I install rlwrp from
>> Mac Ports. Switch shells again (to node) & the ruby version is now 1.8.7
>> from /opt/local.
> 
> Please check again what 'which ruby' returns now and where the symlink
> points to.
> 
> Running 'port' cannot modify the PATH variable of either the current or
> any other terminal. So I don't see how MacPorts could be doing anything
> that would modify the behavior here.
> 
> I assume rvm does not more than modifying PATH and setting up symlinks,
> I did not find more documentation on that matter.


Hi, Rainer.

Readlink returns nothing on both
`/Users/dobbin/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/bin/ruby` & `/opt/local/bin/ruby`.

Cheers,

  Phil...

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