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Asked: 2026-05-24T23:37:02+00:00

I think I screwed up my development environment the other day and I can’t

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I think I screwed up my development environment the other day and I can’t figure out how to get RVM working again.

I cleaned up my startup files for my shell and consolidated my .profile, .bash_profile, .bash_login, and .bashrc files into a single .bash_profile in my user directory.

Ever since I did this, my RVM environment has been screwed up. Now, when I do a which rails and which ruby, my system is now referencing my /usr/local/bin directory instead of my ~/.rvm/bin like it used to.

Here are the first two lines of my .bash_profile config:

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM function

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin:$PATH"

I’m not a UNIX guru and I fear that I’m missing a certain variable name in my “$PATH” declaration. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try to add the RVM line at the end of your .profile and ensure that there are no return statement in it.

    See the RVM installation documentation.

    Especially :

    Ensure that RVM is sourced after any path settings as RVM and manipulates the path. If you don’t do this, RVM may not work as expected.

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