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Developed by Wayne E. Seguin, RVM is based on the idea that you can easily install, manage, and work with multiple Ruby environments from interpreters to sets of gems.

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RVM can't find installed new Ruby version (previously installed using Homebrew)

I'm a beginner, please excuse me if I'm saying or doing things you perceive as utterly stupid. I'm not doing it on purpose. How this started: I wanted to install gems, but got the following error ...
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Unable to install any ruby versions using RVM in macOS Mojave 10.14.2

After upgrading to Mojave 10.14.2 I tried to install any ruby versions using RVM. I get the following error message related to OpenSSL. I have latest command line tools (Command_Line_Tools_macOS_10....
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ruby inside vim causes a segfault

Every time I try to run a ruby command from inside vim, I get a segfault. If I try to run :ruby puts 1, for example, vim crashes immediately: $ vim Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV Vim: Finished. ...
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rvm install fails with "awk: can't open file -l"

I'm trying to use rvm like so: $ rvm install ruby-2.3.1 It seems to run, for a bit, but then fails with: awk: can't open file -l What's up here?
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rvm Error running './configure

Description After I migrating my Macbook to the new one, I encounter an error during reinstalling rvm Steps to reproduce ⋊> rvm install 2.3.3 Environment OSX 10.13.3 rvm version: rvm 1.29.3 (...
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OSX: gpg command error, dyld: Library not loaded:

After I migrating my MacBook, I found out I miss the command gpg. And it threw this error when I wanted to install rvm ⋊> ~ gpg 15:...
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extend gnome-shell PATH for access to ruby binary with RVM

I have a terminal written in ruby that I install with a gem. I want to be able to launch this terminal when I hit Alt+F2 in gnome-shell. When I used the ruby version of my system, I just have to ...
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How to get gpg2 installed on cygwin?

Trying to install gpg2 on win10. Followed bottom answer on this thread; how to install gpg on cygwin? currently it's missing but got a problem when trying to soft linking them; I have "the right"...
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RVM Installation Issues Linux

I have Elementary OS installed on my PC and have installed RVM through the terminal. However, when I type this type rvm | head -1, instead of "rvm is a function", I get rvm is hashed (/home/edson/....
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How can I enable login shell to install RVM in st terminal?

I use rvm for my Ruby dev work, and I'd like to switch to st as my terminal. I'm currently using uxterm, which is ok, but doesn't have the flexibility I'm looking for. However, I can't seem to get RVM ...
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Declare not recognized under bash v4

I'm trying to make use of the new array/hash feature in bash version 4, but when I try to "declare" the variable, I'm getting an error. $ bash --version GNU bash, version 4.4.0(1)-release (x86_64-...
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Prohibit user from issuing a specific sudo command

I'm using the Ruby Version Manager (RVM) which strongly recommends to never run the rvm command on linux prefaced by 'sudo'. How can I allow myself to run the command without sudo as I am supposed to, ...
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Why am I having / how can I fix this error: "shell_session_update: command not found"

Background I am getting into Ruby 2.x, and Rails 4.x, on a MacBook using OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), using the fish shell, employing the integration listed on this page: RVM - Fish Shell (Integration) ...
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rvm requirements fails due to unmet dependencies

I'm trying to get rvm up and running on ubuntu 14.04 and having a tough time figuring out why I can't meet the dependencies. I have done multiple apt-get update && spt-get upgrades but still ...
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Error creating a Ruby launchd task with RVM in OS X

I want to periodically run a ruby gem based command. I am using RVM and following the tutorial set out here. My ruby task is called daily_checks.rb and is as follows: #!/usr/bin/env ruby puts 'in ...
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Nginx OpenSSL library install error

I am on Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), ran rvmsudo passenger-install-nginx-module and when building I ran into this error: -lstdc++ -lpthread -lm /tmp/passenger.1rb7py0/pcre-8.34/.libs/libpcre.a -lssl -...
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Which risks after a chown on /usr/local/

First of all sorry for my english I'm french. I was trying to install rvm on OS X El Capitan, and an error stopped the installation, said me to check that brew update run correctly and surprise, it ...
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RVM is not a function message when using fish shell

I'm trying to use rvm from within the fish shell rvm gemset use rails3 I'm getting the following error message from fish RVM is not a function, selecting rubies with 'rvm use ...' will not work. ...
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RVM wants me to edit PATH in .bash_profile - I fear it is a mess

I am trying to get an Omega sub-theme running on my local machine (OSX 10.10) with Acquia Desktop Dev. Trying to run isolated ruby in sub-theme directory. When I use rvm list I get: Warning! PATH is ...
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RVM - Multilib version error installing libffi-devel on Centos 6.6

I have a Digital Ocean droplet running CentOS release 6.6 and I need to install Ruby and Capistrano on it. I've been following this idiot's guide; https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/...
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How can I disable rvm's interactive help (pager?) i.e. more / less a la `man`?

I recently upgraded from rbenv to the newest version of rvm. If I type a command such as: rvm help Then it gives me the same sort of paging interface I would get with man rvm - but I just want it to ...
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Ruby installation issues with RVM

I've been following the directions at http://installrails.com to get my Macbook Air setup for some ruby work but I am running in any issue with RVM. When I try to install Ruby I get the following ...
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Where did my command (Heroku) go?

I expect to be schooled on this but have exhausted my Google searches and scant knowledge of how OS X finds a command. I've been using heroku for years and for some reason today I get the result: /...
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Installing Ruby with RVM in Ubuntu 14.04

I installed RVM using the following command \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable Then I restarted the terminal and executed this commands source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm rvm requirements rvm ...
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Issue with RVM conflicting with Brew?

I'm running OSX 10.9.3. I have installed Brew, Macports, RVM, rbenv, and other tools in the process of learning and following tutorials. I was not aware that some of these tools do the same thing ...
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Move rvm/gems or make available to root

On a CentOS 6 server I accidentally installed rvm and a bunch of gems as non-root user. Everything is running well, however I'll need to run rvm scripts as super user later. I'd like to fix my ...
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Unknown ruby interpreter version

I have a MacBook Pro, running Mavericks, but I'm not too acquainted with its inner workings. I'm just a humble CS student. After installing Ruby 1.9.3 and Rails 4.0.0, I get this annoying message ...
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Do i need to install gems required by a Sublime Text plugin into rvm's global gemset or will default do?

If a Sublime Text 3 plugin asks me to install a gem for the plugin to work, do i need to tell rvm to install this gem into my global gemset for it to work properly or can I simply type 'gem install ...
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How to keep both 32bit and 64bit RVM rubies

I am using 32bit and 64bit Ubuntus on different machines, and I have a single portable USB HDD which I keep my /home on. I have problems with locally installed RVM, as different architectures require ...
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RVM is not a function, selecting rubies with 'rvm use ...' will not work

I am trying to install Discourse as explained here but the command # Use installed ruby as default rvm use 2.0.0 --default results in this: discourse@ubuntu:~$ rvm use 2.0.0 --default RVM is not ...
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How to install rvm as user jenkins?

I am following these steps to setup a Jenkins server on an Ubuntu EC2 instance. Everything is fine until I get to this step: As you can see (at the end of the output) I am being asked for the ...
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OSX 10.8.4 RVM install troubles with Network Users

I'm trying to install ruby 1.9 as the system default for all users of our mac machines. I've installed RVM using a "local" user account and everything seems to be working fine. I'm able to run the ...
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How can I undo rm -rf $HOME/.rvm*

What does rm -rf $HOME/.rvm* mean? I ran it on my VPS server in Ubuntu Terminal by accident and now I'm having all sorts of problems with my ruby application. How can I undo it? Or what do I need to ...
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-bash: __rvm_add_to_path: command not found

As soon as I log in to my server with ssh I get the message: Last login: Wed Jul 17 16:13:07 2013 from foo.bar.net -bash: __rvm_add_to_path: command not found How can I fix that problem? My website ...
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Installing Vagrant alongside RVM isntalled Ruby

How do I install vagrant alongside a specific version of ruby installed using RVM? I have both 1.8.7 and 1.9.3p429 installed. After using RVM to set my default to 1.9.3 I no longer have vagrant ...
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Error in Terminal when I open it

Last login: Wed Jun 12 15:15:00 on ttys000 -bash: Downloading: command not found -bash: Upgrading: command not found -bash: RVM: command not found -bash: RVM: command not found -bash: Upgrade: command ...
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Ruby and RVM: Unexpected version number

I am using osx 10.8.4 and has brew installed. I followed the ruby/rvm installation instruction here: http://octopress.org/docs/setup/rvm/ rvm install 1.9.3 rvm use 1.9.3 rvm rubygems latest It ran ...
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Bash and Ubuntu Commands

I have a problem with bash currently. I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed on a server I ssh into to do Rails development and something happened and now I am unable to use RVM as it is installed. The error I ...
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how to undo rvm set stable?

I installed a rvm 2.0.0 and everything was ok Then I made by mistake rvm get head Then to correct that I added rvm get stable But now when I try to rvm install 2.0.0-study (same error on rvm install 2....
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Unable to install rvm-rbx in ubuntu 11.10

When i run the "rvm install rbx-head" in my ubuntu 11.10.There seems to be some error in the installation errors as follows: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ferramroberto/filezilla/ubuntu/...
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Ubuntu system ruby upgrade borked rvm, how do I fix this?

I upgraded my system Ruby to Ruby 1.9.1 and inadvertently killed my rvm. My old system was 1.8. Now when I try to run programs that pull from the gems I have in ~/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems, I see:...
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How I get rvm to work properly with gnome-terminal?

How do you get rvm to play properly with gnome-terminal? wim@wim-desktop:~$ rvm list rvm rubies =* ruby-1.9.3-p392 [ x86_64 ] ruby-2.0.0-p0 [ x86_64 ] # => - current # =* - current &&...
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Possible Homebrew and Rubie issues after the installation of RVM on Mountain Lion

I've installed RVM via the line offered on the rvm.io homepage: curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails --autolibs=enabled In order of the installation process RVM automatically ...
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Remove all Ruby from Ubuntu

I’m trying to start a new project with RadiantCMS, but I’m having lots of problems, because in the server are 2 different Ruby installations. The first one, was installed following this tutorial and ...
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Can not install Jruby using RVM

When I run one of the following commands: rvm install jruby-1.7.3 or rvm install jruby I get the following message: Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time. Installing ...
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How can I fix a Broken Pipe error?

I recently reinstalled RVM (following the instructions at http://rvm.io) after a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.10 when I got an SSD Drive. Now, when I type: type rvm | head -1 I receive the following ...
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How to install rvm on Mac OS x 10.8.x. rvm: command not found after rvm installation

I downloaded command line tools for Mac OSx. Checked for git version. Then tried to install rvm: MacBook-Pro:~ Tom$ curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable % Total % Received % Xferd ...
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Rails - Installation Error

I had used below mentioned commands to install rails in ubuntu 12.10 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install curl \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm rvm ...
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How do I run a rake task in cron under a different user?

I'm trying to run a backup script on ubuntu. My problem is that I'm trying to do this using the postgres user account that I setup on ubuntu. I believe having this account run the cron jobs is best ...
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gem install won't do anything - Mountain Lion

I just got a recent installation of Mountain Lion. I installed homebrew and the gcc on dupes to compile proper rubies. Now, with new versions of ruby (1.9.2) I can create and install gemsets and gems. ...
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