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Asked: 2026-05-28T06:39:14+00:00

Currently one of the machines on which I’m running has Ruby 1.8.7 installed as

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Currently one of the machines on which I’m running has Ruby 1.8.7 installed as a .deb and Rails installed following this tutorial: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RubyOnRails

I’ve developed several Rails apps with this machine, and from time to time I have to make little improvements to them. Until now to test the changes using just entering the directory and typing Rails s or Ruby script/server was fine.

Now the problem:

This machine is going to be inherited by someone else, probably with very little knowledge about Rails, so I want to keep everything as simple as possible. But, while this happens, I also want to keep trying the latest versions, and for that I would need to use RVM.

So the question is:
If I keep everything as it is, and now I install RVM along with my needed Ruby versions and gems. Will everything keep working the same as now? Or might I find some nasty surprises?

Maybe there is another solution for this issue. Those are also very welcomed.

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  1. Editorial Team

    As long as you don’t activate RVM by calling it in your .bash_profile or similar RVM won’t do anything, so, yes, you can have it next to the system Ruby without problems.

    Just configure your .bash_profile to load RVM or call the init yourself.

    You could have a look at rbenv too.

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