I find myself back in ruby land for a bit and it was time to help some of my co-workers get RVM running on Mavericks. Having recently figured this out (and needing to share it with more co-workers) I figured I’d share it with everyone.

These instructions will show you how to install RVM on Mavericks for a single user. And, it’s all pretty easy so no worries. We can handle this.

First off, make sure you don’t already have RVM. Just look in your home directory and make sure there is not a folder called .rvm.

$ ls ~/.rvm
ls: /Users/guy/.rvm: No such file or directory

If there is a folder called, this you can either remove it (scorched earth, baby!) rename it, or go find another blog post on how to repair it.

Now, install RVM.

$ \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

Once this is done you can verify everything is installed by checking the .rvm folder.

$ ls ~/.rvm
...lots of stuff...

Hooray! It’s installed. But it doesn’t work. Well, that’s because we ain’t done. You also need to add some stuff you the end – and this is import – the end of your startup scripts. If RVM finds that it is not at the top of the $PATH environment variable it’ll work but nag you like an old lady. Just put it as the end.

I put them in .bashrc but you might put them in .bash_profile. Just make sure they are the last thing to execute. Remember. Old lady.

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin

Once you do that, open a new terminal and install some rubies.

Enjoy!