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Create aliases for rbenv Ruby versions

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Aliases for rbenv Ruby versions

Name: rbenv-aliases
Brand: rbenv-aliases
SKU: //tpope/rbenv-aliases
Rating: 2.0625 (125 reviews)

Invoke

rbenv alias

to make a symbolic link from

in the rbenv versions directory, effectively creating an alias. The cool part is that if you pass in a point release as the name, you can give

--auto

to link to the latest installed patch level. For example,

rbenv alias 1.8.7 --auto

will automatically create an alias from

1.8.7

1.8.7-p371

(or whatever the most recent version you have installed is).

Plus, if you're using ruby-build,

rbenv install A.B.C-pXXX

automatically invokes

rbenv alias A.B.C --auto

, so you'll always have up to date aliases for point releases.

Whether it's a good idea to use these aliases in a

.ruby-version

file, I cannot say. I created this plugin to find out. If your only concern is having to reinstall gems every time you install a new patch release, check out rbenv-communal-gems.

Installation

mkdir -p "$(rbenv root)/plugins"
git clone git://github.com/tpope/rbenv-aliases.git \
  "$(rbenv root)/plugins/rbenv-aliases"
rbenv alias --auto