RVM is not working over SSH

Question

RVM is not working over SSH.

At the command-line:

leifg@host:~$ which ruby /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/ruby 

Connected over SSH:

local:~$ ssh leifg@server 'which ruby' /usr/bin/ruby 

I'm using Ubuntu 11.04.

How do I get SSH to use the same Ruby as it is on the system?

I already verified some prequisites:

• Ruby was already installed using apt-get install ruby. Does that make any difference?
• sshd_config has the option "PermitUserEnvironment yes", and I restarted the daemon.

The .bashrc on the server contains these lines, but I see the same behavior when I remove them:

if [ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ] ; then   . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" elif [ -s "/usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm" ] ; then   . "/usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm" fi 

Answer 1

Actually, your ~/.bashrc will be executed. The problem is usually that one adds the

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM into a shell session *as a function* 

... snippet at the bottom of the file. However, the default .bashrc on ubuntu systems includes the following near the top

# If not running interactively, don't do anything [ -z "$PS1" ] && return 

That call will stop executing the rest of the script and will therefore not set the proper paths. So you can either put the rvm call at the top of the file or remove the return call.