Ruby Version Manager broke my $PATH

Question

I installed RVM on OSX and now my $PATH variable is totally changed. I tried to change it in .bashrc and .profile but it doesn't seem to have any effect. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

It looks like you have some misuse in your RC files, have a read here: https://rvm.io/support/faq/#shell_login

basically .profile should not be used as bash login RC script, there is .bash_login or .bash_profile which are better choice for it.

to fix your profile files you need to run:

rvm get stable --auto-dotfiles

and restart computer - yes restart the machine, it's only a minute on mac

Answer 2

I ran into this problem when I had an rvm binary in /opt/local/bin (a macport called 'rsync vault manager'). After uninstalling that, rvm stopped removing /opt/local/bin from my path.