How do you uninstall rbenv on macOS?

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How do you uninstall rbenv on macOS? My version of rbenv is messed up, and brew uninstall rbenv isn't working because brew relies on ruby.

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Solution 1 - Ruby

I took these steps to successfully get rid of rbenv on my mac running El Capitan (10.11.4). Rbenv is a major cause of Failed to build gem native extension errors from my experience.

  • Remove using brew: brew remove rbenv
  • Delete .rbenv directory: rm -rf ~/.rbenv
  • Open .bash_profile file and delete any lines with rbenv in them: vi ~/.bash_profile
  • Open .bashrc file and delete any lines with rbenv in them: vi ~/.bashrc

Finally, reload .bash_profile and .bashrc:

> . ~/.bash_profile && . ~/.bashrc

Solution 2 - Ruby

I think you should be able to uninstall rbenv by simply removing ~/.rbenv.

rm -rf ~/.rbenv

Or, if you installed rbenv via Homebrew, you can do

rm -rf `brew --prefix`/Cellar/rbenv

Solution 3 - Ruby

Remember to uninstall all ruby versions installed by rbenv before uninstalling rbenv itself.

rbenv versions
rbenv uninstall x.y.z # uninstall all versions from the last step
brew uninstall rbenv
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