I'm getting “RVM is not a function” error on Mac OS X, and no posted solutions work

Question

I\'m on Mac OS x 10.8.2 (\"Mountain Lion\"), and I successfully installed RVM 1.17.8 and its dependencies. I\'m able to use it to install Ruby versions using rvm install 1

Answer 1

Make sure your shell initialization files are set up properly:

rvm get head --auto-dotfiles

Then go to your terminal emulator preferences and enable login shell, sometimes it it required to use /bin/bash --login. Also make sure to fully close terminal and open it fresh after changing the setting.

Answer 2

look for .profile, if exists, remove it! loof for .zshrc, if exists, remove it! Now, use vi to edit your .bash_profile, add this line

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"

Now, close all console services and open again, make a test using $ rvm gemset use global

Work fine for me!

Answer 3

The solution ended up being on the RVM Help & Support page, in the ".bash_profile not being loaded on OSX" section. It seems that the issue was that I had my terminal set to open with the "default login shell" and when I changed it to instead open with the command "/usr/bash" in Preferences/Setup, "source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm" started working, and rvm is now being recognized as a function.