RVM(1.20.12) does not install Ruby 2.0.0p195 but installs 1.8.7

[Nalesso Moreira]

Hello,

I am new to rvm, However I have never had this sort of issue.

My OS was Debian Lenny old-stable so that made me to migrate to Debian Wheezy x86_64 (stable).
 gcc   4.4.7-2

 git     1.8.1.2

 curl   7.21.0

 bash  4.1.5
 

After installing all the dependencies ruby needs I installed rvm:

 \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s -- --ignore-dotfiles

So far so good, However when I tried to install ruby 2.0

 rvm install ruby-2.0.0

Despite the fact it is not being compiled the installation finished without prompting any error, Therefore when I run:

 #output - https://gist.github.com/nbit001/5651567

 rvm 2.0.0

 ruby -v

It says:

 $HOME/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p195/bin/ruby: No such file or directory

As it shows, somehow it is not being compiled, Now I don't know how the lastest rvm works when installing ruby.

Therefore I started looking for the 'cure' 

What I came up with was:

 

 rvm install ruby-2.0.0 --with-gcc=gcc

When I do this it does compile and works perfectly.

Thereafter when I run:
 rvm 2.0

 ruby -v #=> ruby 2.0.0p195 (2013-05-14 revision 40734) [x86_64-linux]

It does not shows the error:

 $HOME/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p195/bin/ruby: No such file or directory

Okay it is working, but I am so curious why it works that I need to ask the ones more skilled than me.

Due to some hacking in the expectation of getting it to work, I have seen that when I type rvm install 2.0, it downloads ruby-2.0.0-p195.tar.bz2 and it renames it prepending  'bin'.

When I type rvm install 2.0 --with-gcc=gcc which downloads ruby-2.0.0-p195.tar.bz2 and does not prepend bin to its file's name.

Moreover, I installed ruby 1.8.7 and it worked perfectly, without using any flag.

What I have also noticed is that bin-ruby-2.0.0-p195 has a dir tree totally different than ruby-2.0.0-p195 .

Also rvm install 2.0.0 does not generate any blob_number_extract.log, _name.log, _install.log. However it generates blob_number_gem.install.log, _gemsets.initial.log, etc.

Whereas rvm install 2.0.0 --with-gcc=gcc generates all sorts of logs.

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind Regards,

Antonio C Nalesso

[Jabari Zakiya]

To check the rvm rubies that have been installed do:

$ rvm list

To select a ruby version to actually use you MUST do:

$ rvm use <ruby-in-list>

So if Ruby 2.0.0-p195 is in the 'rvm list' to use it do:

$ rvm use ruby-2.0.0

If you just do a  "$ ruby -v"  first, you will be see/use the ruby version supplied by the OS.
 

[mpapis]

please open a bug report https://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/issues

[Nalesso Moreira]

Thanks Jabari Zakiya,

It does show the rubies I have got installed. However when I '$ ruby -v' it says 'No such file or directory'.

That's why I found it very strange, because it installs but it is not compiling somehow and I do not know why.