[LRUG] Deleted the contents of ~/.zshrc and ~/.bashrc, system can't find rubygems.

[Jesse Waites]

Yesterday, because I'm an idiot, I deleted the content of my ~/.zshrc and
~/.bashrc files. Now, I can't start my rails server, console, anything - it
says it cant find my gems. Can someone PLEASE answer a few questions. I
have been struggling with this for over 12 hours and unable to do the work
at my job since my system is down. I have tried putting the paths from 'gem
environment' into bashrc

"export GEM_PATH=/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/:${GEM_PATH}"

but it doesn't work.


1) Why do I even have both ZSH and Bash? Did homebrew install one?


2) Why did my terminal (iTerm) seem to switch between zsh and bash
depending on what program I'm running?


3) Should I delete bash or zsh and focus on fixing the path to my gems?


4) How do I FIND the path to my gems? I have tried 'gem environment' and
pasting the output from there (4 lines? 4 environments?) but it doesnt seem
to work. I just want my system to work how it did 2 days ago :(


5) How could this have happened to me? Are most devs not stupid enough to
delete these files? Im shocked this simple thing has had such devastating
consequences. This must be why devs back up their dotfiles on github?


6) Should I focus on installing rails, gems, etc where it IS looking? I
keep getting 'cant build for this or that reason' so thats a nonstarter as
well.


7) Can someone email me a gist of their ~/.zshrc and ~/.bashrc or
~/.bash_profile?


8) Is there a "stock" one I can use? I can't find an unmodified one on
github.


This whole situation is like, every thread I pull on, something else falls
apart. I cannot believe it. Complete disaster. Please help me or kill me
and put me out of my misery. I am pulling my hair out here.

-- 
Jesse Waites
Web Developer
JesseWaites.com
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