Why do I need to add ~/.rbenv/bin to my path?

bash, path, rbenv, ruby

Solution

I had the following in my `.zshrc`

export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(rbenv init -)"

But I only needed the bottom line

# export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(rbenv init -)"

Problem

I read in rbenv can't change global ruby version that I need to add `~/.rbenv/bin` to my PATH for rbenv to work. That's also mentioned in the rbenv documentation but that directory doesn't exist as shown below: ``` $ ls -a ~/.rbenv/ . .. plugins shims version versions ``` So why do I need to add a directory that doesn't exist to my path for `rbenv` to work? Edit: @theTinMan, I tried uninstall and reinstalling, but I still don't have a `~/.rbenv/bin` path. Where are you seeing in the documentation that it should be there? ``` $ rbenv --version rbenv 1.0.0 $ which rbenv rbenv () { local command command="$1" if [ "$#" -gt 0 ] then shift fi case "$command" in (rehash | shell) eval "$(rbenv "sh-$command" "$@")" ;; (*) command rbenv "$command" "$@" ;; esac } $ cd $ ls .rbenv plugins shims version versions $ brew list | grep rbenv rbenv $ $ brew uninstall rbenv Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/rbenv/1.0.0... (36 files, 61.9K) rbenv 0.4.0 is still installed. Remove all versions with `brew uninstall --force rbenv`. $ brew uninstall --force rbenv Uninstalling rbenv... (32 files, 49.9K) $ brew install rbenv ==> Summary /usr/local/Cellar/rbenv/1.0.0: 36 files, 62K $ ls .rbenv plugins shims version versions $ rbenv -v rbenv 1.0.0 $ rbenv versions system 2.0.0-p648 * 2.3.1 (set by /Users/max/.rbenv/version) $ ```

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