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
.rbenvdirectory:rm -rf ~/.rbenv
For Bash
- Open
.bash_profilefile and delete any lines with rbenv in them:vi ~/.bash_profile - Open
.bashrcfile and delete any lines with rbenv in them:vi ~/.bashrc
Finally, reload .bash_profile and .bashrc:
. ~/.bash_profile && . ~/.bashrc
For ZShell
- Open
.zprofilefile and delete any lines with rbenv in them - Open
.zshrcfile and delete any lines with rbenv in them
Finally, reload .zprofile and .zshrc:
. ~/.zprofile && . ~/.zshrc