17 engineers on Hacker News describe using RVM first-hand: 7 endorse it, 5 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“rvm was an absolute mess in 2013.”
regret · personal · irjustin · 2025-03-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use RVM to manage my environments... I guess my takeaway is that RVM > rbenv”
endorse · production · TheRealDunkirk · 2021-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'd prefer to take RVM with me into docker-land so that I can A-B test Ruby versions within the same container image”
endorse · production · yebyen · 2019-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“not to mention its programming environment (installing rvm, for example)”
regret · personal · omegote · 2013-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we stopped using RVM in production... In development however RVM is awesome”
mixed · production · calineczka · 2013-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have steadily migrated from rvm to rbenv to chruby because the relative invasiveness of each solution has simplified my development life.”
regret · personal · halostatue · 2013-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use a Ubuntu box for development and rvm/bundler, virtualenv/pip...cover my needs”
endorse · personal · irahul · 2013-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The reason I use RVM in production is that it makes it trivially easy to: Use multiple parallel Ruby versions”
endorse · production · cheald · 2013-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have had similar experiences with rvm in production environments.”
regret · production · jeltz · 2013-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used RVM in production on multiple servers for well over a year. RVM fits perfectly in corporate environments”
endorse · production · 1 yr · stevenhaddox · 2011-08-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Gemset isolation comes in handy. Sometimes you want to have multiple ruby versions (e.g. MRI for app and JRuby for memory heavy script)”
endorse · personal · xentronium · 2011-08-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Considering the many times I've seen RVM installs fail due to checked-in broken code, I'd hardly call it "production ready" either.”
regret · personal · bonzoesc · 2011-08-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's not until I've got work within the Ruby field, I've had the need for it.”
endorse · production · Sirupsen · 2010-09-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it made a complete mess of my /usr/local/bin and also screwed up my install of rvm”
neutral · personal · thomnific · 2016-09-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the ruby package managers we use (i.e. ruby-install, rvm, etc.)”
neutral · production · thinkbohemian · 2014-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Um. I use Bundler along with rvm.”
neutral · production · irahul · 2013-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have to use rvm in production because debian/ubuntu install ruby 1.8 and I need 1.9.2 for rails 3.”
neutral · production · SpikeGronim · 2011-08-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?