Hm well, I do use my distro's (ubuntu) default package manager if I'm not doing rails dev (sudo apt-get install ruby rake) but I need to easily switch between r

Hm well, I do use my distro's (ubuntu) default package manager if I'm not doing rails dev (sudo apt-get install ruby rake) but I need to easily switch between ruby versions and rails versions sometimes, so rvm makes my life easier. It lets me create "gemsets" -- it's not that I don't appreciate the package being in the repos or something :) Honestly I don't see the big deal. It's possible that a person might use the repo packages sometimes, and rvm other times. From a purely practical point of view, it seems okay. Though, if I was able to do that with the distro's packages that'd be cool too.