Robert Walker wrote in post #966886: > Rob Th wrote in post #966852: >> I expected after deinstalling rails 2.3.8 gem list local would find the >> other rails versions. But did this blow away all rails? >> >> I admit I am in learning mode. I thought this was a place to help out >> beginners. I have been programming in Assembler, C, and tons of SQL and >> now some PHP and writing shell scripts since the late 70s, and the >> complexity and impreciseness of the books and tutorials are amazing RoR, >> >> Is there a way to just go into the file system, and delete all the >> directories for Rails and just do a fresh reinstall. I cannot figure out >> rvm, > > Hopefully this will help clear things up for you. The installation of > Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X is a bit different than on other platforms. A > version of both Ruby and Rails are pre-installed either with the > operating system or Xcode (not sure which since I always install Xcode > on all my systems). > > Some (usually older) versions of a number of gems are installed in the > Mac OS X system library (/System/Library/). The gem command (even using > sudo) cannot be used to uninstall these system gems. > > It might be possible to use the root user to delete the framework that > contains those gems, but I don't know what you might break in doing so. > > With RVM you can effectively "replace" all the pre-installed system gems > with gemsets that you can fully manage. Installing and learning RVM is > actually easier than trying to manage the system installed gems > (including the Rails ones).
I tried rvm and I just don't get it. Sorry. I think you are right. I think Xcode installed some of this. Actually I do not recall any other install. I was pretty surprised to see all these versions. Not sure where they came from. This whole RoR thing makes me nervous. I own a bunch of heavy equipment and I have operators and mechanics. Most RoR types are users, not mechanics. I think I am leaking hydro and need a wrencher not an operator. :) I appreciate your help. I did de-intall xcode last night using the script from Apple and it did not clean this up either. Can you explain why after doing a de-install of 2.3.8, ruby -v says no ruby? See above. If I reinstall Mac OS do you think that would make this go away and I could do a new install with just ruby 1.8.7 and rails 2.2.2. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
