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Terica Douglas
4,552 PointsInstalling RVM and Rails WinSubsystemLinux - ruby 1.9.3 is installed. The rails install goes to this -v. HELP
I can't see the RVM or the ruby 2.4.2 I thought I installed.
Terica Douglas
4,552 PointsApologies; I didn't realize there was a header.
I use Win10 bash. Official name WSL.
1) Only opens ruby -v 1.9.3 (Treehouse Rails dev requires ruby 2.2.x.) 2) In following D/L instructions, I have no idea where the RVM was installed to. no rvm. not in var or bin; nor in root or home
my shell home is /bin/bash
Net net: need directions to config the WSL bash open the needed version of ruby.
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsThe only thing I can recommend is not to use Windows for any kind of Ruby or Rails development. I know it now has bash and all the Linux-compatible stuff in theory, but in practice there will not be too much support online to help you troubleshoot such situations, since developers rarely (if ever) use Windows for Ruby/Rails. Consider using a Linux virtual machine or service such as Cloud9.
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Brandon McClelland
4,645 PointsYou need to change which ruby is the default for RVM like this:
rvm --default use 2.4.2
You can read more about changing the defaults here: https://rvm.io/rubies/default
Brandon McClelland
4,645 PointsI second Maciej's comment about using a virtual machine; it can be a lot simpler than juggling multiple system version installs to simply create a new VM with only the target version installed. Checkout Vagrant if you haven't already.
Terica Douglas
4,552 PointsThank you. Since this was on the RVM page of instructions, I did flag for a new default, and passed in 2.4.2.
Terica Douglas
4,552 PointsRight now using PS and Docker; probably will go with an Alpine based RoR image. I will report as I go through this course
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsMaciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsPlease expand on this. What is your operating system? What are you trying to accomplish and what were the steps you performed?