New to Ruby and am having trouble with LOAD_PATH

Question

I recently installed Ruby 2.0.0 on OS X 10.8.3 by compiling from source code. I checked the version with

$ ruby --version
ruby 2.0.0p195 (2013-05-14 revision 407         


        

Answer 1

Ruby 1.8.7 is shipped with OS X. It seems that gem is seeing that version instead of your manually installed 2.0.0. As others already suggested, using RVM or rbenv (which one depends on personal preference) makes handling different ruby environments much easier. You can find those tools and descriptions for them in the following places:

RVM: https://rvm.io/

rbenv: https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv