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Ruby

Posted by Ashna Dabas
Ashna Dabas
3,737 Points

trouble installing rbenv

I have been following the steps to install ruby on mac but when I copy and paste the following command in bash 

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

I get 

-bash: /Users/ashnadabas/.bash_profile: Is a directory

similarly with 

echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile

as a result of this, I am unable to run the rbenv command on my console as I get command not found. I am not sure what I can do to fix it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

1 Answer

Marshall Huss
Marshall Huss
3,504 Points
Marshall Huss
Marshall Huss
3,504 Points

For some reason you .bash_profile is a directory. You might want to see if there's anything in it with ls ~/.bash_profile. If there's nothing there then run rm -r ~/.bash_profile and re-run the rbenv commands. Alternatively you should be able to substitute ~/.bashrc for the ~/.bash_profile.