rvm command not found

Question

I installed rvm with rails, from the official website of RVM, I specified the command suggested by the tutorial. When the installation my system has rails 4.0.0, rvm 01/23/12, ruby 2.0.0, bundler gem 1.3.5 and 2.0.3 But I need to install ruby 1.9 to practice with a course that I am currently doing."Rails for Zombies 2" I try to execute the instruction rvm install 1.9.3 and the console returns this message: rvm: command not found

Answer 1

Possible duplicate of: Ubuntu rvm setup issue

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Your problem is that RVM is not loaded when you open a new terminal.

To solve this , run this command line: ( if using login-shell )

echo "source $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" >> ~/.bash_profile

Or this ( if using non-login shell ):

echo "source $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" >> ~/.bashrc

Or if you are using zsh (and/or oh-my-zsh):

echo "source $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" >> ~/.zshrc

This will add the path to RVM to load at each Terminal instantiation. You must either close and reopen your terminals or simply call source ~/.bashrc (or ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zshrc ).

Answer 2

I had this problem after installing zsh. I'm a domain user so my $PATH and $HOME are not as straight-forward. What worked for me was

echo "source /usr/share/rvm/scripts/rvm" >> ~/.zshrc

Answer 3

The latest installation needs the users to be added to the Group rvm and then need to login again.

Please note that closing the terminal and reopening is not enough; the user has to logout and log back to take the Group addition in effect.

Adding the user to the Group can be done by:

sudo usermod -a -G rvm <user>

The binaries can also be at different locations based on the method you followed during the installation. I had them at /usr/share/rvm/

You can also look at /usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm

Then you add this line to the end of ~/.bashrc

[[ -s /usr/share/rvm/scripts/rvm ]] && source /usr/share/rvm/scripts/rvm

Note: If you are using a shell other than bash you may need to add the path accordingly.

For instance, if you using zsh shell add the above lines to the ~/.zshrc file.