Trouble with oh-my-zsh + rvm: solved

Whenever I ran rails server from within a tmux shell window, I’d get rubygem dependency errors from bundler, but the ZSH prompt and command-completion were working, so I knew the right shell was getting loaded.

The last line of my user-level .zshrc file is rvm use default (currently ruby 1.9.2), and tmux was using 1.9.2, so that was fine as well.

However, RVM apparently ignored my local .rvmrc file, which uses a local gemset, so none of my gems were found.

source .rvmrc in the shell window allowed me to run rails server with no problem, but that’s a hassle to do every time.

Appending source .rvmrc to the end of my .zshrc file explicitly causes the local gemset to be loaded if the file exists, and is a no-op if not. My terminal windows act the same as always, but now every tmux window/pane acts just like it does from the command-line.

Brilliant, just what I needed! Was trying to follow other people’s suggestion of adding “cd .”, but wasn’t working for me.

adding

/bin/bash—login

to your .zshrc file should do it