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Ruby Installing Rails on Mac

Ignacio San Martin
Ignacio San Martin
421 Points
Posted by Ignacio San Martin
Ignacio San Martin
421 Points

I get a WARNING when installing RVM. Something about '~/.profile' file, you might want to load in .bash_profile

When trying to install RVM I get the following message:

  • WARNING: You have '~/.profile' file, you might want to load it, to do that add the following line to '/Users/ignacio/.bash_profile':

    source ~/.profile

The problem is I dont see any file named ".bash_profile" in that location.

Ethan Rivas
Ethan Rivas
9,979 Points
Ethan Rivas
Ethan Rivas
9,979 Points

Usually the files with a dot are "hidden" so, you can't see them, which O.S are you using ?

4 Answers

Ignacio San Martin
Ignacio San Martin
421 Points
Ignacio San Martin
Ignacio San Martin
421 Points

I'm using OS X El Capital v 10.11.5

Ethan Rivas
Ethan Rivas
9,979 Points
Ethan Rivas
Ethan Rivas
9,979 Points

I found this on Internet, I hope this works for you:

  • Replace content of /Users/user/.bash_profile with source ~/.profile
  1. Travel to folder: cd ~/
  2. List only hidden files: ls -ld .?*
  3. Edit file: pico .bash_profile
  4. Replace content
  5. Save
Ignacio San Martin
Ignacio San Martin
421 Points
Ignacio San Martin
Ignacio San Martin
421 Points

Great after unhiding files I was able to install RVM

Ethan Rivas
Ethan Rivas
9,979 Points
Ethan Rivas
Ethan Rivas
9,979 Points

Nice! Happy coding :D!

Mars Epaecap
Mars Epaecap
5,110 Points
Mars Epaecap
Mars Epaecap
5,110 Points

Here's what I did:

Open Terminal (click Go > Utilities and double-click the Terminal app)

Now copy and paste both lines listed below into Terminal one at a time, and press Return after each line:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

killall Finder

then open finder and navigate to '/Users/your_user_name/.bash_profile you can just open your downloads folder and do cmd + up-arrow to get to your_user_name folder then just look for the .bash_profile file and open it and paste source ~/.profile in there.

then to hide the .files again do the following in the terminal:

bash defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO

killall Finder