I have installed ruby via rvm on Mint 11 no problem. Installed gems, ditto. Installed rails via gem install rails, and when I type rails -v it returns the correct version. Until I close that terminal and reopen a terminal. When I do that and type rails -v I get the message
The program 'rails' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install rails
If I then type
rvm use 1.9.2-p180 --default
and then type rails -v I again get the correct version...until I close the terminal.
I should add that I have added a path statement to my .bashrc pointing to the 1.9.2-p180 directory in my .rvm directory.
Typing ruby -v always returns the correct version.
Create .bashrc file and add .rvm command
$ sudo touch ~/.bashrc
$ sudo gedit ~/.bashrc
(Add line to .bashrc file)
if [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] ; then source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ; fi
Logout and Login OR just update user profile from .bashrc with following command
$ . ~/.bashrc