Installing the latest RVM on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1Edit

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Follow the instructions from https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/rvm/install/:

$ bash < <(curl -s https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/install/rvm)

In my .bash_profile I have:

if [[ -s $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm ]]; then
  source $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm
else
  # make Bundler do passwordless installs to a sandbox rather than to the system
  export BUNDLE_PATH=~/.bundle
fi

The goal here is that when RVM is available, we use that, and when it isn’t we tell Bundler to install into a shared area inside my home directory. That way I never have to do gem installations with root privileges.

Upon re-sourcing the .bash_profile you can do:

$ rvm list known
$ rvm install 1.8.7
$ which ruby
$ rvm use 1.8.7
$ which ruby