Installing rbenv

In case we wind up needing multiple Ruby versions on this server, 0:00 we're going to use a software package called rbemv. 0:03 That stands for Ruby environment. 0:07 Rbemv will download and install Ruby versions for us and 0:11 let us switch between them as needed. 0:14 Note that it shouldn't be confused with RVM standing for Ruby Version Manager. 0:17 RVM is a bit more complex than rbenv, and while it's appropriate for 0:22 a development environment. 0:26 It's probably better to use rbenv in production. 0:27 So let's click on RVM's GitHub site here. 0:33 And then go down to the installation section. 0:38 And you'll see the command for installing it here, basically you just git clone 0:41 the repository into your home directory on your server. 0:46 So we're gonna copy that command and then go back to our terminal and 0:49 paste it there. 0:52 Next, we need to add rbenv to the list of paths that Linux searches when it's 0:58 looking for executables. 1:02 So I'm gonna copy the second command here, and again paste it into my terminal. 1:04 And what this does is it'll just cause your system to search the rbenv 1:10 directory for executables before it searches the rest of the directories. 1:15 Next, the install instructions advise us to run this command, 1:23 to get instructions on how to set up the rest of our environments. 1:27 We'll copy this, piece it into the terminal. 1:30 And it says to add this line here to our bash profile configuration file. 1:34 So I'm going to fire up the nano editor. 1:41 And edit the bash profile file. 1:46 Note that that starts with a dot here in our home directory. 1:50 And I'm going to paste that line here on a new line. 1:55 As usual I'll hit Ctrl+O to write out the file and Ctrl+X to exit. 2:02 Now, to load in these configuration changes, 2:07 I'm gonna need to restart the shell. 2:09 So I'm going to exit out of the system and log in again. 2:11 We can confirm the installation was successful by running the rbenv command. 2:18 The last recommendation here in the rbenv install instructions is, 2:24 to install the ruby-build plugin. 2:27 Rbenv has plugins which provide various functionality, and 2:31 the ruby-build plugin allows you to install new Ruby versions automatically. 2:34 The command you need to install it is right here at the top of the ruby-build 2:39 page. 2:42 So we're gonna copy that. 2:43 And switch to our terminal and paste it there. 2:46 Just like before, 2:54 it'll do a git clone into your home directory into the rbenv plugins folder. 2:55 And now let's try running it. 3:01 We do that with the rbenv command and we'll use the install sub command. 3:02 We're gonna install a specific version of Ruby with the -v flag. 3:08 We're gonna install version 2.3.0. 3:14 And they'll download and install that version for us automatically. 3:18 Again, this might take a little bit. 3:22 When it returns to the system prompt, your new Ruby version will be installed. 3:26 Now we're going to wanna set it up to use this new Ruby version 3:31 in every new shell that you open. 3:33 We can do that by running the rbenv command, the global sub command. 3:35 And we'll use the new version that we just installed. 3:42 Hit enter to run that. 3:46 And then we can verify our new Ruby version by typing the ruby command 3:47 along with the -v flag to check the version. 3:52 And there it is, Ruby version 2.3.0. 3:55