Global gemset not visible after installing Ruby with RVM

Question

I installed RVM the usual way:

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby

During installation these messages were displayed:

ruby-1.9.3-p286 - #configure
ruby-1.9.3-p286 - #download
(...)
ruby-1.9.3-p286 - #extract
ruby-1.9.3-p286 - #validate
ruby-1.9.3-p286 - #setup
'ruby' was not found, cannot install rubygems unless ruby is present (Do you have an RVM ruby installed & selected?)
Saving wrappers to '/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/bin'.
ruby-1.9.3-p286 - #importing default gemsets (/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/gemsets/)
Creating alias default for ruby-1.9.3-p286.
Recording alias default for ruby-1.9.3-p286.
Creating default links/files
Saving wrappers to '/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/bin'.

The "'ruby' was not found" message is suspicious....

And, when I call gem list, the list is empty.

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

But then I call rvm use ruby@global then gem list, I get:

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

bundler (1.2.1)
rake (0.9.2.2)
rubygems-bundler (1.1.0)
rvm (1.11.3.5)

So, apparently, my "global" gemset is not visible from the "default" gemset. Can you tell me why?

Here is the output of rvm info for "global" gemset:

ruby-1.9.3-p286@global:

  system:
    uname:       "Linux rmaruszewski 3.2.0-32-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 26 21:33:09 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux"
    system:      "ubuntu/12.04/x86_64"
    bash:        "/bin/bash => GNU bash, version 4.2.24(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)"
    zsh:         " => not installed"

  rvm:
    version:      "rvm 1.16.17 (stable) by Wayne E. Seguin <wayneeseguin@gmail.com>, Michal Papis <mpapis@gmail.com> [https://rvm.io/]"
    updated:      "12 minutes 37 seconds ago"

  ruby:
    interpreter:  "ruby"
    version:      "1.9.3p286"
    date:         "2012-10-12"
    platform:     "x86_64-linux"
    patchlevel:   "2012-10-12 revision 37165"
    full_version: "ruby 1.9.3p286 (2012-10-12 revision 37165) [x86_64-linux]"

  homes:
    gem:          "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286@global"
    ruby:         "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286"

  binaries:
    ruby:         "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/bin/ruby"
    irb:          "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/bin/irb"
    gem:          "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/bin/gem"
    rake:         "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286@global/bin/rake"

  environment:
    PATH:         "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286@global/bin:/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/bin:/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/bin:/home/rmaruszewski/bin:/home/rmaruszewski/bin/build:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt:/opt/AccurevTools/bin:/opt/accurev/bin:/home/rmaruszewski/bin/gitscripts:/srv/git/development/tools/gts/bin:/srv/git/build/Build:/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin:/opt/grails/bin:/opt/gradle/bin"
    GEM_HOME:     "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286@global"
    GEM_PATH:     "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286@global"
    MY_RUBY_HOME: "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286"
    IRBRC:        "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/.irbrc"
    RUBYOPT:      ""
    gemset:       "global"

And this is for the "default" gemset:

ruby-1.9.3-p286:

  system:
    uname:       "Linux rmaruszewski 3.2.0-32-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 26 21:33:09 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux"
    system:      "ubuntu/12.04/x86_64"
    bash:        "/bin/bash => GNU bash, version 4.2.24(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)"
    zsh:         " => not installed"

  rvm:
    version:      "rvm 1.16.17 (stable) by Wayne E. Seguin <wayneeseguin@gmail.com>, Michal Papis <mpapis@gmail.com> [https://rvm.io/]"
    updated:      "18 minutes 26 seconds ago"

  ruby:
    interpreter:  "ruby"
    version:      "1.9.3p286"
    date:         "2012-10-12"
    platform:     "x86_64-linux"
    patchlevel:   "2012-10-12 revision 37165"
    full_version: "ruby 1.9.3p286 (2012-10-12 revision 37165) [x86_64-linux]"

  homes:
    gem:          "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286"
    ruby:         "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286"

  binaries:
    ruby:         "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/bin/ruby"
    irb:          "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/bin/irb"
    gem:          "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/bin/gem"
    rake:         "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286@global/bin/rake"

  environment:
    PATH:         "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/bin:/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286@global/bin:/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/bin:/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/bin:/home/rmaruszewski/bin:/home/rmaruszewski/bin/build:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt:/opt/AccurevTools/bin:/opt/accurev/bin:/home/rmaruszewski/bin/gitscripts:/srv/git/development/tools/gts/bin:/srv/git/build/Build:/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin:/opt/grails/bin:/opt/gradle/bin"
    GEM_HOME:     "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286"
    GEM_PATH:     "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286:/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286@global"
    MY_RUBY_HOME: "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286"
    IRBRC:        "/home/rmaruszewski/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/.irbrc"
    RUBYOPT:      ""
    gemset:       ""

If you downvote, at least show some guts and leave a comment why. — rmaruszewski, Nov 02 '12 at 09:51

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 03 '12 at 01:52

I think I ran into the same exact problem except on Mac OSX 10.7.

I'm new to ruby. I am going through the netuts tutorial (http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ruby/singing-with-sinatra-the-recall-app-2/).

I installed RVM, upgraded to the latest Ruby (mac comes with 1.8.7), setup rvm to default to 1.9.3, gem installed sinatra, datamapper, etc. but when I try to require "datamapper" in either the IRB or a .rb file, I get the "LoadError: cannot load such file -- datamapper" error.

I gem installed data_mapper instead and that seems to work, but, this seems to be some type of configuration issue that I don't understand.

I'm posting because I see the same versions as you for RVM (1.16.17) and ruby (1.9.3-p286) and I have the same RVM version in my gem list --local (rvm 1.11.3.5).

Not sure how I can have RVM 1.16.17 and the gem says rvm 1.11.3.5. Also, rubygems is supposed to be 'included'in 1.9 but in the irb if I type require "rubygems" it returns false.

I hate being a n00b...sorry I don't have an answer.

Well, @rmaruszewski I'm crawling away from ruby n00b. In my case, and for a reason I don't fully understand yet, the solution is to `require "data_mapper"`. but thanks for posting this because it was as stepping stone to getting to the bottom of my problem. — J Mac, Nov 03 '12 at 21:01

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 01 '12 at 04:29

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did you used the ruby in first place:

rvm use ruby

answered Nov 01 '12 at 04:29

mpapis

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Sure. Before I had another version of Ruby installed, then I uninstalled it, and then installed RVM. It's possible that something (a configuration file, perhaps) has left from the previous installation and now interferes with RVM. – rmaruszewski Nov 02 '12 at 15:18
As a temporary workaround I've switched to the global gemset by default. – rmaruszewski Nov 02 '12 at 15:19

Global gemset not visible after installing Ruby with RVM

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