On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:12:32PM +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> Conclusion: installing the latest 1.8.0 binary snapshot did not ensure
> that I am actually running the latest library code.  I don't know how
> date.rb got into site_ruby/1.8 in the first place.  Does anyone have a
> bright idea how to uninstall an existing Ruby installation in order to
> ensure a clean install of a new one?

The following should do it:

rm -rf /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8 /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
rm /usr/local/bin/{ruby,irb,erb}
rm /usr/local/lib/libruby-static.a

Regards,

Brian.