Wow, you guys are fast! Thanks so much for all the input. Nick Wientge also suggested RVM so I'm definitely going to give that a try.
Martin: How's the Bay Area treating you? Hope you're well. Cheers, Chris On May 20, 2:41 pm, Martin Emde <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 for RVM > > Don't try to uninstall the default OS X Ruby. > > Martin Emde > Tw: @martinemde > > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Scott Smith > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > 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 > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected]http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
