chruby: Can't get chruby to play nice with vim :(.

I just got a new MacBook Pro (first time in ~ 3 years) and decided to give chruby a go this time round instead of RVM.

I’ve sourced chruby in my ~/.zshrc:

source /usr/local/opt/chruby/share/chruby/chruby.sh
source /usr/local/share/chruby/auto.sh

In my vim config, I have:

set shell=$SHELL\ -l

.ruby-version in my project root is:

1.9.3-p448

…yet, when I run :!ruby --version it shows me that it’s running Apple’s default system ruby:

ruby 1.8.7 (2012-02-08 patchlevel 358) [universal-darwin12.0]

Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

About this issue

You probably run zsh. You can set the shell to be set shell=bash in Vim if you don’t absolutely require zsh in Vim.

The zsh problem is likely due to Mac OS X shipping with /etc/zshenv which should be /etc/zprofile. Fix that with:

sudo mv /etc/zshenv /etc/zprofile

This fixes more issues down the road than just Vim.