“RVM is not a function” error

Question

RVM is installed on my machine (running Mac OSX 10.6.8), correctly and it runs fine. The odd thing is that to run it, I have to use source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm for ev

Answer 1

None of these solutions seemed to redeem my problem which was on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

What I did is the following:

1. rvm get stable --auto-dotfiles as outlined in the RVM documentation here
2. Added source ~/.profile as the first line of: ~/.bash_profile

I will not all of these steps were documented as errors from the RVM command line:

RVM is not a function, selecting rubies with 'rvm use ...' will not work. You need to change your terminal emulator preferences to allow login shell. Sometimes it is required to use /bin/bash --login as the command. Please visit https://rvm.io/integration/gnome-terminal/ for a example.

and

• WARNING: You have '~/.profile' file, you might want to load it, to do that add the following line to '/home/user_name/.bash_profile':

  source ~/.profile