Question

RVM is installed on my machine (running Mac OSX 10.6.8), correctly and it runs fine. The odd thing is that to run it, I have to use source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm for every new session. I tried making a symlink from it to /opt/local/bin/rvm, but when it runs it does nothing. I also tried creating a symlink from ~/.rvm/bin/rvm to /opt/local/bin/rvm, and when I run rvm in the Terminal it displays the help page, as expected. But when I try rvm use some_ruby_version it always displays “RVM is not a function, selecting rubies with ‘rvm use …’ will not work.”. How can I fix this?

My goal is to get it to the the point that I don’t have to type the source command every session, and for some reason ~/.profile does not execute.

Answer 1

I didn’t understand what ~/.profile does correctly; I needed to change ~/.bash_profile instead. Problem solved!