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Ruby Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing Ruby on Mac

Posted by caleb rodgers
caleb rodgers
882 Points

how do i void this and start over? i did this way before i started at treehouse and have stuff installed in wrong places

i used homebrew to install rbenv before, and ruby, but if i try to install certain things with rbenv they won't work.

1 Answer

david carter
david carter
9,677 Points
david carter
david carter
9,677 Points

Blast the whole rbenv installation to begin from scratch:

  1. Delete references to rbenv from your ~/.bash_profile
  2. Nuke the rbenv root directory (default: ~/.rbenv). sudo rm -rf ~/.rbenv You're done!

I would recommend following installation guide here: https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv#installation