I’m trying to get the system to use the Ruby version I’ve set with

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I’m trying to get the system to use the Ruby version I’ve set with

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I’m trying to get the system to use the Ruby version I’ve set with RVM. The following commands produce this output:

$ rvm use 1.9.2 --default
Using /usr/share/ruby-rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180
$ rvm current
ruby-1.9.2-p180
$ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [x86_64-linux]

Here’s the contents of my PATH:

PATH=/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games

Also:

$ whereis ruby
ruby: /usr/bin/ruby /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/lib/ruby /usr/share/man/man1/ruby.1.gz
$ whereis rvm
rvm: /usr/bin/rvm /usr/share/man/man1/rvm.1.gz

I assume this is an issue of environmental variables, but I don’t really know what to do beyond that.

I’ve tried rvm system, then rvm list and rvm current only list 1.9.2 with ruby --version listing 1.8.7 still.

I’ve also tried adding export PATH=/usr/share/ruby-rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180:$PATH to .bashrc, then restarting and still, the wrong version of RVM. After doing that, my path says:

$ echo $PATH
/usr/share/ruby-rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games

But if I navigate to /usr/share/ruby-rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin, the only executable in the directory is rake. So I figured it just wasn’t installed right, so I ran rvm install 1.9.2 and the directory is still the same.