capistrano on osx

So I needed to reinstall my operating system. My Mac's video card gave up (apparently this is a "known issue"=http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377?viewlocale=en_US) and I needed to have it repaired. Well, I just happened to have a 500GB drive on hand (thanks Quirky and Sissy) and so I gave it a shot. I did better than that though... I kept a record of everything I installed... in order. To make it easier next time. One issue bit me that I couldn't solve though: capistrano stopped working. I kept getting the following error: could not find any SCM named `git' Now this didn't make any sense to me. I spent time searching the web and found a lot of wrong answers. Jamis Buck came to the rescue on the #capistrano channel on freenode. His advice was to uninstall and reinstall capistrano. Well, I uninstalled and checked to make sure it was gone... and it wasn't. Then I tried deleting the executables and still I was getting the error. According to Jamis, the Ruby that ships with OSX comes with capistrano version 2.0.0 to be precise. Well, this was easy enough to fix sudo /usr/bin/gem uninstall capistrano I then reinstalled 2.5.3 to my non-osx gems and everything started working magically.