Daniel Harple wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2006, at 3:44 AM, superN00b wrote:
>> I installed Ruby 1.8 using Terminal on Mac OSX (Thank God for Visual
>> Quickstart Guides). But when I check the version with "ruby -v", it
>> still says that it's running version 1.6.2 or whatever. So I went
>> looking for it and sure enough, the new version didn't overwrite  
>> the old
>> one - it just set tself up next to it. So the shell just keeps on  
>> using
>> the old one.
> 
> I think by default ruby will be installed in /usr/local. The Apple
> supplied Ruby is in /usr, and you should not remove it, or overwrite
> it. Try setting your PATH variable to include /usr/local/bin first:
> 
> Bash:
> export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
> 
> But for the long-term, you really should consider using DarwinPorts.
> It takes the pain out of installing software from source.
> 
> -- Daniel

OK. That seemed to work.  I thought "Bash" was a command, so it wasn't 
working at first, but then I just took it off and typed in from "export" 
and it worked. Thanks!

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