Everyone seems to have a favourite Ruby version manager but I haven’t seen much discussion of the pros and cons of each one.
So which one do you use, and why?
I’m on RVM.
Biggest reason why is familiarity, and it works well for me for what I’m using it for all these years.
Due to the familiarity, I haven’t really found myself looking at the other options.
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ASDF as it allows you to manage more than just Ruby. If you using multiple languages like Python, Erlang and Ruby or more - then you can manage these with this instead of using individual language managers.
Previously I used RVM which is a standard install and referred commonly in tutorials online. It’s maintained well and the handling of gemsets makes for cleaning out your computer much more manageable.
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Use RVM
rvm.
more features for deployment and config mgmt integration - runs PGP checks on rvm binary, less issues with rvm_path set up for workers vs web processes vs system ruby.
for dev, rbenv is fine. the two share a syntax about active ruby version which ops can bridge