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

Posted by Ryan Le
Ryan Le
11,674 Points

Why is rbenv absorbed over rvm?

I've dabbled for the past year with RoR but decided to get a complete and structured understanding, hence coming here.

Why is the course managing ruby with rbenv instead of the more popular rvm? Is it just for simplicity for beginners? Most of my co-workers use rvm, and all of our VPS's also run rvm..

Just wondering why treehouse went the rbenv route for instruction when they're more likely to find dev's using rvm. :-)

2 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

Possibly just to show people that there are other options out there. I like RVM more and use it instead. you can use RVM for that course if you want, it wont make a difference as long as you install and use the same version of ruby

Ryan Le
Ryan Le
11,674 Points
Ryan Le
Ryan Le
11,674 Points

Thanks for the thoughts Stone.

Actually, now that I've moved further in the track, I can see under their Ruby foundations series.. they cover some RVM usage. :-) Just found it interesting that in the previous course of the track, Installing Ruby, they covered rbenv use.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Ryan Le - It's important to realize that the order of courses in a track doesn't correspond to the chronological order in which the courses were made. Courses mostly stand on their own in terms of content planning and are organized into tracks after the fact.