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Mason Goetz
5,048 PointsWhy are we now using rvm when we set up rbenv in the last section (rails development track)?
From looking around the forums here and elsewhere, it seems that they do more or less the same thing. Having just completed the last section on this, the rails development, track, I don't understand why we're now installing rvm.
In this video, I followed along without doing much until around 6:00. Then I put this code in to edit my bash profile:
touch ~/.bash_profile
mate ~/.bash_profile
Then it returns:
-bash: mate: command not found
What do I need to do to get this running properly?
2 Answers
Geoff Parsons
11,679 Pointsmate is the command line alias for TextMate. If you have TextMate installed and want to use the command line you can create a directory under your user directory called "bin" and create the alias to mate there with the following:
mkdir ~/bin
ln -s /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate ~/bin/mate
Of course you'll need to add this directory to your PATH in bash or whichever shell you use by adding something like this to your .bash_profile (i know, a bit of a chicken and egg problem since what you're trying to do is edit your profile in the first place):
export PATH="${HOME}/bin:$PATH"
Alternatively if you don't have TextMate you can use one of the builtin editors such as pico or vi. Or more similar to TextMate (both in functionality and the fact that it's not free) Sublime Text.
In short, ignore the mate command in this video and use the editor of your choice. :)
Mason Goetz
5,048 PointsThanks for the help. Much appreciated.