How do you uninstall rbenv on macOS?

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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

For Bash

  • 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

For ZShell

  • Open .zprofile file and delete any lines with rbenv in them
  • Open .zshrc file and delete any lines with rbenv in them

Finally, reload .zprofile and .zshrc:

. ~/.zprofile && . ~/.zshrc

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