I\'m running Ruby 1.9.1p243 on CentOS, and I decided to install rvm to handle upgrading to 1.9.2 or downgrading to 1.8.7 (whichever turns out to work better for rails3).
I've been struggling with setting default rvm ruby to no avail, until I've tried this:
sudo bash -l -c 'rvm alias create default ruby-1.9.3-p392'
"sudo" is for writing into /usr/local/rvm/config/alias (in my example it would contain "default=ruby-1.9.3-p392")
"bash -l" is to make sure it runs all the scripts (/etc/profile, /etc/bash.bashrc, etc..) of login shell