How do I uninstall a ruby version installed via source?

Posted by Aaron McIver on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Aaron McIver
Published on 2012-09-30T22:02:50Z Indexed on 2012/10/03 9:40 UTC
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I installed a version (1.9.3-p194) of ruby via source using make install and realized this may have been the wrong route to take. Upon doing this, I realized this was a mistake and I should be using a solution such as rvm to address my ruby versions within the OS.

I looked to see if an uninstall existed to be ran in conjunction with make and it didn't.

I then proceeded to install rvm and add the aforementioned version in to my list of managed rubies within rvm which is not listed as ext-ruby-1.9.3-p194.

rvm rubies

   ext-ruby-1.9.3-p194 [ x86_64 ]
=* ruby-1.9.3-p194 [ x86_64 ]

# => - current
# =* - current && default
#  * - default**

When I perform an rvm remove, it simply removes it from the rubies list however it still exists within /usr/local/bin. I am not concerned with the system install ruby version residing in /usr/bin as I understand that is tied to the OS and should simply be ignored.

How can I safely uninstall/remove the aforementioned version and all the places in which it was installed, short of looking at the install script?

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