_ Learning, sharing, coding. Home About Me Email Me Tweet Many of you are familiar with rbenv and some of the controversy surrounding it. I love RVM and will more than likely continue to use it, but one of the things I truly value in the ruby community is always having more than one option. I was delightfully surprised with the simplicity of rbenv, how easy it was, and how familiar it felt right out of the box. This article will provide a (humorous) side-by-side comparison of the basic usage and installation of rbenv and RVM. In RVM you need to add this to your profile to load the RVM function. # or ~/.zshrc $ echo '[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM function' >> ~/.bash_profile In rbenv you need to add this to your profile to load the rbenv command-line function. # or ~/.zshrc $ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"...