RVM – Ruby Version Manager

How can I manage different Ruby versions?

I hit on an idea how to show: What exactly is RVM? RVM is like house with flowers. Each flower need special living conditions. One of them likes water, other doesn’t like strong light. If we want to flowers grown, we need to take care about this specific living conditions. In this cases help us RVM. Each project wrote in Ruby on Rails needs special environment. RVM help as to keep environments separate without problems.

How can we use RVM?

It’s easy, look:

  • list of Ruby versions (type of ground):
rvm list

it can look like:

rvm rubies

     jruby-1.7.4 [ x86_64 ]
     ruby-2.0.0-p195 [ x86_64 ]
  =* ruby-2.0.0-p247 [ x86_64 ]

  # => - current
  # =* - current && default
  #  * - default
  • list of gemsets (living conditions):
rvm gemset list

  => (default)
     global
     woman_on_rails
  • change gemset to woman_on_rails:
rvm gemset use woman_on_rails

  Using ruby-2.0.0-p247 with gemset woman_on_rails

When we look into gemset list now, we can see:

rvm gemset list

   (default)
   global
=> woman_on_rails

OK, but how can we install RVM?

I hope that, my entry helps you understood what RVM is. I love feedback. Please live your comment. This article is a simple sample of RVM. If you want more knowledge please check official RVM webpage.