# How to set RUBY EXECUTABLE path in Ruby Gems Environment

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I have ruby 2 version in my Mac which are 1.8.6 and 1.8.7.  
I would like to set Rubygems environment to point to Ruby 1.8.7.

Anyone know this issure???

ubyGems Environment:

- RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.5
- RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [universal-  
darwin9.0]
- INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8
- RUBY EXECUTABLE: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/  
Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby
- EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/bin
- RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
  - ruby
  - universal-darwin-9

- GEM PATHS:
  - /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8
  - /Users/panu/.gem/ruby/1.8
  - /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/  
ruby/gems/1.8

- GEM CONFIGURATION:
  - :update\_sources =\> true
  - :verbose =\> true
  - :benchmark =\> false
  - :backtrace =\> false
  - :bulk\_threshold =\> 1000
  - :sources =\> [“[http://gems.rubyforge.org/](http://gems.rubyforge.org/)”, “http://  
[gems.github.com/](http://gems.github.com/)”]

- REMOTE SOURCES:
  - [http://gems.rubyforge.org/](http://gems.rubyforge.org/)
  - [http://gems.github.com/](http://gems.github.com/)