I have recently installed RVM on a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 and can not work out how to start using a particular ruby version.
I have installed Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.2
Have you added the following line to your .bash_profile,
.bash_profile
[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"
as the installation page for rvm says?