Ubuntu 10.04 upgrade on Toshiba Satellite: Ruby Version Manager

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Installation of rvm went pretty smoothly after the practice I got installing it on the Acer netbook. First step was to install prerequisites:

sudo apt-get install
    curl
    git-core
    build-essential
    zlib1g-dev
    libssl-dev
    libreadline5-dev

Next step was to run curl to do the basic install of rvm:

bash < <( curl http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/releases/rvm-install-head )

Then I edited .bashrc and commented out the line

[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

I noticed I had made a mistake when adding the source line to .bashrc on the Acer. The line should be

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"

After that, I executed .bashrc like this

. ./.bashrc

and when I ran

type rvm | head -n1

I got the response

rvm is a function

just as the original instructions said to expect.

Next I ran

rvm install 1.9.2

and it downloaded and installed ruby 1.9.2 and rubygems 1.3.7.

At this point ruby -v said "The program 'ruby' is currently not installed". After I ran

rvm --default 1.9.2

then ruby -v said "ruby 1.9.2p0..." and gem -v said "1.3.7".

I uncommented the line

[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

in .bashrc to see if my guess was right about reinstating it after rvm had been used once. I closed the Terminal window and opened a new one, and ruby -v still worked. I logged out and in again, and ruby -v still worked.

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