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How do I fix my Ruby installation

Hi all,

I rather cleverly (or not in hindsight) installed RVM, which kept hanging whilst compiling Rubies.

I have removed the .rvm directory but now my system has reverted to Ruby 1.8.7 i.e. when I type:

ruby -v
which ruby

they both point to 1.8.7.

How do I get the ruby command to point to my 1.9.1 installation, which is located in /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1? I'm on OSX 10.6.

Thanks

Robin

A: 

Is /usr/local/lib (why isn't it bin?) in your PATH and before /usr/lib in this case?

What is which ruby returning?

EDIT: My de-facto /usr/local link for OS X (and in general) is on Hivelogic

theIV  2010-06-06 21:32:52
Not sure why it is lib and not bin. My .bash_login file has the following:export PATH="/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"I added /usr/local/lib after your comment. Do I need to restart to have the above changes take effect?
Robin Fisher  2010-06-06 21:44:53
Ignore the above. Quit the terminal and it's all working now! Thanks
Robin Fisher  2010-06-06 21:47:35
As a future note, if you make changes to your .bash_login file, it won't be applied to your current session, so you will either have to start a new session or you can do `source .bash_login`.
theIV  2010-06-06 22:41:10

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