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RVM: Get rid of your system Ruby

Henning Koch
January 21, 2013Software engineer at makandra GmbH

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.

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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.

Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2013-01-21 12:19)