How do you uninstall rbenv on macOS?
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
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