Thanks, Colin. I live in literalville. I tried as I think you suggested and got this.
Select gem to uninstall: 1. rails-2.3.8 2. rails-2.3.8 3. All versions > 3 Remove executables: rails in addition to the gem? [Yn] Removing rails Successfully uninstalled rails-2.3.8 Remove executables: rails in addition to the gem? [Yn] Removing rails Successfully uninstalled rails-2.3.8 RobsiMac:~ rob$ rails -v -bash: /usr/bin/rails: No such file or directory RobsiMac:~ rob$ gem list --local *** LOCAL GEMS *** actionmailer (2.3.8, 2.3.5, 2.2.2, 1.3.6) actionpack (2.3.8, 2.3.5, 2.2.2, 1.13.6) actionwebservice (1.2.6) activerecord (2.3.8, 2.3.5, 2.2.2, 1.15.6) activeresource (2.3.8, 2.3.5, 2.2.2) activesupport (2.3.8, 2.3.5, 2.2.2, 1.4.4) acts_as_ferret (0.4.3) capistrano (2.5.2) cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.5.0) daemons (1.0.10) dnssd (0.6.0) fastthread (1.0.1) fcgi (0.8.7) ferret (0.11.6) gem_plugin (0.2.3) highline (1.5.0) hpricot (0.6.164) libxml-ruby (1.1.2) mongrel (1.1.5) needle (1.3.0) net-scp (1.0.1) net-sftp (2.0.1, 1.1.1) net-ssh (2.0.4, 1.1.4) net-ssh-gateway (1.0.0) rack (1.1.0, 1.0.1) rails (2.3.5, 2.2.2, 1.2.6) rake (0.8.3) RedCloth (4.1.1) ruby-openid (2.1.2) ruby-yadis (0.3.4) rubynode (0.1.5) rvm (1.1.3) sqlite3-ruby (1.2.4) termios (0.9.4) xmpp4r (0.4) RobsiMac:~ rob$ ruby -v ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [universal-darwin10.0] RobsiMac:~ rob$ rails -v -bash: rails: command not found 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, -- 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.
