Ruby problem

Phil Dobbin phildobbin at gmail.com
Mon Mar 12 14:00:34 PDT 2012


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On 10/03/2012 23:19, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> On 10/03/2012 21:50, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 10, 2012, at 10:37, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> 
>>> Regarding this problem, again today I did some work using
>>> nodejs in a shell which rvm had allocated as Ruby 1.9.3 (the
>>> value of `which ruby` confirmed this before I started with
>>> node) & after finishing work on node running `which ruby`
>>> returned /opt/local/bin/ruby.
>>> 
>>> Nodejs is installed into /opt/local.
>>> 

[snip]

>>> If anyone could shed any light on what's happening here I'd be 
>>> grateful.
> 
>> Something that is unrelated to MacPorts is happening.
> 
>> Installing a MacPorts port only installs files into /opt/local.
>> It does not touch your environment. Just running node or most
>> other programs should not alter your shell environment either.
> 
>> I don't know how rvm works, but it sounds like it's fragile. I'd 
>> talk to the developers of rvm for insight.
> 
> 
> OK, I'll run it by Michael Papis on the rvm list.

It was an rvm problem which has now been patched. It can be applied by
pulling `rvm head` then `rvm reload` just in case anybody else is
using it or are reading the archives late one night scouring the
Internet with the same problem.

Cheers,

  Phil...

- -- 
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