~/.ruby-version sets default ruby only for home directory tree

[tmatilai]

The "Default Ruby" section in the Readme indicates that ~/.ruby-version would set the default ruby the same way as calling chruby. Actually it only sets it for the home directory and its subdirectories.

I'm not sure if this is a problem for anyone, but maybe the wording in the readme should be tweaked a bit? If a true default value is wanted then chruby_auto should try to find and use ~/.ruby-version as a fallback before resetting to system ruby.

[tmatilai]

Oh, and thank you very much for the great project! chruby seems to make all that you need and nothing extra for ruby version management. The biggest problem so far is that I keep typing chroot instead of chruby. :D

[postmodern]

Ah good point. This was some-what intentional to reuse the sub-directory behaviour for the "default" Ruby. We can change it use ~/.ruby-version as the fall-back file, if no other .ruby-version could be found.

[tmatilai]

OK, I can take a look later.
I guess the tests require more work than the implementation. As always. =)

[postmodern]

Going to try to include this behaviour in 0.3.3.

[tmatilai]

I already started to hack something up a while ago. I pushed it now to my default-ruby-version branch. Feel free to comment, use, cherry-pick, ignore, etc. I can also change this issue to pull request based on that branch if you want.

Tests are now quite dependent on the system configuration. I'll open another issue with my findings.

[tmatilai]

@postmodern do you have any comments on this?

I'm actually not using the auto-switcher myself at the moment so this is not an issue for me personally.

[postmodern]

I need to get around to merge your code this weekend.

[postmodern]

I like this idea. I'm considering rewriting chruby-exec as a function, that way it could make use of chruby_auto.

[hovsater]

I like this idea. I just got bitten by this exact issue and was thinking of making a pull request until I noticed this issue. I think it's fair to assume that it fallback to ~/.ruby-version if traversing the parent directories yield no result.

Any update on this yet?

[davidcelis]

This would be great. I'd hate to have to put a .ruby-version file in the root directory.

[caleb]

I would love this patch or something like it to make it in. I often forget to chruby when I navigate to a different drive or folder on my machine.

Is there anything I can do to make this patch or one like it make it into chruby?

[havenwood]

Here's a stab at supporting ~/.ruby-version without changing the function structure, just to see what that might look like: havenwood@47c6b6c

[caleb]

@havenwood That patch works well on my system with ZSH.

[havenwood]

Support for a .ruby-version file in / was added in 2e991e4.