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
Like tass suggested you obviously have a different rvm directory then $HOME/.rvm so
[[ -s "/usr/share/ruby-rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "/usr/share/ruby-rvm/scripts/rvm"
is probably what you would to use instead