RVM: Get rid of your system Ruby

If you worked with a system Ruby before switching to RVM, this system Ruby will be in your way when you switch between projects with/without RVM.

It's hard to get rid of your system Ruby entirely, but you can tell RVM to just use a given Ruby by default, e.g.:

rvm --default use 1.8.7

You need to re-open existing terminals for the changes to take effect.

Note that this will not actually remove the ruby package from your system, it just isn't used anymore.

Henning Koch

Last edit

2013-03-27

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How to get the hostname of the current machine in Rails or a Ruby script

Use Socket.gethostname. So for a machine whose hostname is "happycat", it will look like this:

>> Socket.gethostname
=> "happycat"

That should work right away for your Rails application. For plain Ruby, you first need to do:

requi...

Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2013-01-21 11:19)