How to make RVM use the default automatically

Question

RVM doesn't use the default Ruby version on both my Mac and Ubuntu server.

This is what I get when I do rvm list on my Mac:

rvm rubies

 * ruby-2.1.2 [ x86_64 ]

# => - current
# =* - current && default
#  * - default

And what I get on Ubuntu:

rvm rubies

 * ruby-2.1.2 [ i686 ]

# => - current
# =* - current && default
#  * - default

They are already the default and only version available, but I have to manually type rvm use 2.1.2 each time when I need to do some Ruby stuff. I guess I could put that command into .profile or the like, but it feels hackish since I'm expecting RVM to use the default version.

Does anyone have a better solution?

Did you set the default ruby using this command `rvm use ruby-2.1.2 --default` ? — Santhosh, Aug 07 '14 at 05:12
Did you run `rvm --default use 2.1.2` to set and use the ruby 2.1.2 as default? — Rajesh Omanakuttan, Aug 07 '14 at 05:14
Yes I've already tried `rvm use ruby-2.1.2 --default`. But closing and starting another shell causes ruby to default back to system's ruby. — resting, Aug 07 '14 at 05:30
Please refer http://stackoverflow.com/a/11105199/1896986 and run the command `rvm --default use 2.1.2` once. — Rajesh Omanakuttan, Aug 07 '14 at 05:40

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 23 '19 at 17:57

I resolved the problem.

I tried rvm use ruby-2.1.2 --default multiple times and it didn't work. There's two things I did:

I moved this line:
```
[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM into a shell session *as a function*
```
in ~/.bash_profile to the last line. See "How to use "RVM --default" on MacOSX".

Somehow some application decided to add itself to this file and making it the first in the path.
Run rvm get head.

This solved the problem for me on my Mac.

How to make RVM use the default automatically

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