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Ruby Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing Ruby on Mac

Posted by notf0und
notf0und
11,940 Points

Updated to the newest version of Ruby, but typing ruby -v returns the old version. Do I actually have the new version?

The installation of Ruby 2.1.2 went fine, no errors. But as the title says, when checking to see if Ruby 2.1.2 is actually installed, ruby -v returns 2.0.0p451.

So I assume something went wrong, but what exactly is it, and how do I fix it?

Thanks

2 Answers

Nicholas Vandenbroeck
Nicholas Vandenbroeck
4,599 Points
Nicholas Vandenbroeck
Nicholas Vandenbroeck
4,599 Points

You should use the following command in terminal:

rvm --default use 2.1.2

You can have multiple versions of ruby installed at the same time. Now it uses default version 2.0.0. You can read this blog post for more information: http://rvm.io/rubies/default

Michael Kuntz
Michael Kuntz
5,815 Points
Michael Kuntz
Michael Kuntz
5,815 Points

I had to close and reopen terminal to see the new version.