Ruby on Rails Bash Profile Issue

Question

I'm trying to learn to use Ruby on Rails (going through Hartl's tutorial for 3.2) and I'm trying to get some command line tools to work from the command prompt in Terminal. In this particular example I'm trying to get Sublime Text 2 to work. Everything is setup, but when I run subl --help, for example it returns

-bash: subl: command not found

I followed all the directions in this link - http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/osx_command_line.html

and I also used Stack Overflow to try to figure out how to solve this error and it seems to be a bash profile problem, but I don't know how to access, or modify this profile to get things working. Can you offer any help?

Thanks!

Answer 1

If you're using OSX Lion, you may not have a .bash_profile file. Use the answers to this question for help in creating/using one, and then put the exports suggested by the howto at sublimetext.com in it.