I'm new to ubuntu, and might have had a couple of false starts updating ruby / rails. I'm trying to start clean by removing all versions of every thing ruby from my system I think I've installed everything through either Synaptic, or aptitude purge, but I can still do the following: jwally@jwally-laptop:~$ ruby -v ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18 revision 29036) [i686-linux] jwally@jwally-laptop:~$ gem -v 1.3.7 jwally@jwally-laptop:~$ irb irb(main):001:0> RUBY_VERSION => "1.9.2" but when I type "dpkg -l | grep ruby, I only get the following: rc ruby1.8-elisp 1.8.7.249-2 ruby-mode for Emacsen thanks in advance