How do I use JRUBY_OPTS with RVM?

Question

It seems that the idiomatic way to provide flags to JRuby in an RVM-based Rails project is to set the environmental variable JRUBY_OPTS or PROJECT_JRUBY_OPTS, the latter per

Answer 1

Add this line to your .bashrc file

export JRUBY_OPTS=--1.9 

It's working fine for me