Unable to install JRuby if you have a directory called "java"

[davorb]

It is currently impossible to install JRuby with RVM if there's a directory called "java" in your $PATH.

Basically you will get this error https://gist.github.com/770188

[ghost]

this isn't rvm. this is jruby

please see http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-6262

[mpapis]

i think you are using old RVM, please upgrade first and try reproducing your steps:

curl -L get.rvm.io | bash
rvm reload
rvm install jruby

[davorb]

@deryldoucette I did have a look at that, and there it says "The error is coming from RVM"

@mpapis I did that more than once and the problem persisted.

[mpapis]

@davorb at least the jruby version changes, can you create a new gist for it?

[davorb]

https://gist.github.com/2594452

[mpapis]

I have did some test and checking, I can not find how this can be RVM issue.

[BanzaiMan]

I also tested this, but I can't reproduce this. The trigger doesn't seem to be what's on $PATH before RVM runs.

@davorb What is ~/bin/java on your machine? Is that a wrapper to do some environment manipulation to get Java working for you?

Whatever it is, try running jruby under RVM with strace and figure out which file is actually giving you EACCESS error.

[mpapis]

closing as it does not lead us strictly back to RVM.