I ran into similar challenges when I upgraded to Snow Leopard. I concur w/ John on rvm; it's now an integral part of my Ruby development.
I found I could disable the unwanted ruby by deleting or moving its binaries. I considered reordering the items in the PATH environment variable, but I decided that was too risky. HTH, Scott On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:33 PM, John Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, why not try RVM? Its a great way to have multiple Rubies on your > machine. > > http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/ > > > Regards, > > John Lynch, CTO > Rigel Group, LLC > [email protected] > > > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Chris McCann <[email protected]> > wrote: > > SD Ruby, > > > > I'm trying to sort out how best to uninstall the default ruby 1.8.6 > > install that comes with OS X 10.5. I installed 1.8.7 following the > > Hivelogic advice but now I'm obviously getting conflicts between the > > two ruby versions. > > > > My main goal is to do this without clobbering all of the installed > > gems on my MacBook. Can anyone give me some pointers on how best to > > do this? I would have thought this would be a snap to google but I've > > yet to find an accurate or detailed explanation of how to remove > > 1.8.6. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Chris > > > > -- > > SD Ruby mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > -- Scott Smith With privilege comes responsibility, with responsibility comes accountability, with accountability comes honesty, with honesty comes faithfulness. -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
