Problem using rvm in bash script

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I am using rvm installed on Ubuntu 10.04 as recommended in the rvm docs (including changes to .bashrc) and all is working well with several versions of Rails, and Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.2. If I run rvm use 1.9.2 it says Using /home/colinl/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0 and if I run rvm info It shows exactly what I would expect for 1.9.2 and I can start the rails server and all is well.

The problem arises if I put the above commands in a bash script: #!/usr/bin/env bash rvm use 1.9.2 rvm info

When I run this it shows Using /home/colinl/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0 from the rvm use command, which suggests that it if finding rvm ok, but the output from rvm info is:

system:

  system:     uname: "Linux piglet 2.6.32-26-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 24 09:00:03 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux"     bash: "/bin/bash => GNU bash, version 4.1.5(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)"     zsh: " => not installed"

  rvm:     version: "rvm 1.1.2 by Wayne E. Seguin (wayneeseguin@gmail.com) [http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/\]"

  homes:     gem: "not set"     ruby: "not set"

  binaries:     ruby: "/usr/local/bin/ruby"     irb: "/usr/local/bin/irb"     gem: "/usr/local/bin/gem"     rake: "/usr/bin/rake"

  environment:     PATH: "/home/colinl/bin/piglet:/home/colinl/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/colinl/.rvm/bin:/home/colinl/.rvm/bin"     GEM_HOME: ""     GEM_PATH: ""     MY_RUBY_HOME: ""     IRBRC: ""     RUBYOPT: ""     gemset: ""

Which is not right at all, it being the same as i get if I enter rvm info without preceding it with rvm use.

Google has not helped me to a solution. Has anyone experienced this problem, or can suggest what I am doing wrong?

Colin

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I am using rvm installed on Ubuntu 10.04 as recommended in the rvm docs (including changes to .bashrc) and all is working well with several versions of Rails, and Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.2. If I run rvm use 1.9.2 it says Using /home/colinl/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0 and if I run rvm info It shows exactly what I would expect for 1.9.2 and I can start the rails server and all is well.

The problem arises if I put the above commands in a bash script: #!/usr/bin/env bash rvm use 1.9.2 rvm info

When I run this it shows Using /home/colinl/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0 from the rvm use command, which suggests that it if finding rvm ok, but the output from rvm info is:

Why is it that one so often finds the solution within two minutes of posting a question over which one has been struggling for hours?

The answer is at http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/workflow/scripting/

Sorry for the noise.

Colin

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I am using rvm installed on Ubuntu 10.04 as recommended in the rvm

docs (including changes to .bashrc) and all is working well with

several versions of Rails, and Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.2.

If I run

rvm use 1.9.2

it says

Using /home/colinl/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0

and if I run

rvm info

It shows exactly what I would expect for 1.9.2 and I can start the

rails server and all is well.

The problem arises if I put the above commands in a bash script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

rvm use 1.9.2

rvm info

Colin, not sure if this will help at all but I have never used the ‘use’ word. I do:

rvm 1.9.2-p0

not

rvm use 1.9.2-p0

To select the Ruby I want to use…