Comments on Michael Greenly: Multiple Versions of Ruby On Ubuntu

You're the greatest. Thanks for being there, and ...

2008-02-02T11:04:00.000-08:00

You're the greatest. Thanks for being there, and so soon.

Until I can get that stuff squared in, I welcome you to collaborate here:

http://www.google.com/coop/

Jesse: It looks to me like you had an existing rub...

2008-02-02T05:32:00.000-08:00

Jesse: It looks to me like you had an existing ruby installed and it already had links in /usr/bin/local.

The other common problem is that you had environment variables for ruby gems set. if you have GEM_HOME set it will not put things where it should.

Focus on getting everything working through the full paths. Type /opt/ruby1.8.6/bin/ruby1.8.6 to make sure it works. Using that full path run the gem install etc...

Once all that's working symlink what ever you want into /usr/local

If your not using it "apt-get remove --pruge" all the system installed stuff.

Let me know if that helps any.

will you help me ?pastie 146552

2008-02-02T02:31:00.000-08:00

will you help me ?

pastie 146552

thank you. i had been unable to determine the gli...

2008-01-17T19:51:00.000-08:00

thank you. i had been unable to determine the glitch i found in or by way of your directory switches, at which point i found it most beneficent to junk the system and install from disk, re-allocate an old drive to root, and start fresh. i'll check back to this post in a year, i would guess, if programming ruby on rails becomes to something for my purposes. again, thank you, and best of the year.

jcrocket: If all you need is Ruby 1.8.6 just remov...

2008-01-17T19:42:00.000-08:00

jcrocket: If all you need is Ruby 1.8.6 just remove any manually installed ones and if need be re-install the distribution packges. If your 'which ruby' says '/usr/local/*' it's finding a ruby that was previously installed from source but not to /opt like I described.

sorry about my over-excitement.. last night i mad...

2008-01-15T13:21:00.000-08:00

sorry about my over-excitement.. last night i made a fresh install from disc for ubuntu 7.10. after following your instructions, everything worked past the first call to 'gem env'.. however, now the call to 'which ruby' yields '/usr/local/bin/ruby' and rails 2 does not work, nor will install by 'sudo gem install rails'. i don't mean to bother you, but is this something that i should tinker with (ask a lot of questions) or something that i should just start over, from scratch, again? i guess that if there's a question, it's to ask your opinion for an inexperienced programmer in this regard -- are your instructions tenable to follow if all that is needed is ruby 1.8.6, or is it worthwhile in my situation to follow your instructions?

Thanks for these instructions. Works perfectly.

2008-01-13T11:31:00.000-08:00

Thanks for these instructions. Works perfectly.