How do I change the default Rails version that gets used? - ruby-on-rails

ANSWERED (other noobs should read what I did):
Thanks to those who answered, but I think I know why it had still been defaulting to the system ruby earlier. I started a shell session and installed rbenv, then install ruby-build for rbenv, then install ruby 2.1.2 and ran rbenv global 2.1.2 Then I installed the new version of rails and tried to create a new rails project.
I think the mistake was just that I hadn't started a new shell session and so it defaulted to the rails location it had when the session started, which was with the system ruby. Stupid mistake. Blah.
ORIGINAL POST:
These are my rbenv versions
system
* 2.1.2 (set by /home/ab/.rbenv/version)
and this is what I get when I run
gem list -d rails
rails (4.2.0.beta1, 4.1.1)
Author: David Heinemeier Hansson
Homepage: http://www.rubyonrails.org
License: MIT
Installed at (4.2.0.beta1): /home/ab/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0
(4.1.1): /home/ab/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0
The Hartl tutorial online uses 4.2.0beta1, so I want to use that, but when I try to make a new rails project, it defaults to 4.1.1.
Somebody from this suggested a way to change a default rails version, but the command looks in the wrong location. See here
ab#abpc:~/Code/RailsTutorial$ rails _4.2.0beta1_ -v
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/dependency.rb:247:in `to_specs': Could not find railties (= 4.2.0beta1) amongst [actionmailer-4.1.1, actionpack-4.1.1, actionview-4.1.1, activemodel-4.1.1, activerecord-4.1.1, activesupport-4.1.1, arel-5.0.1.20140414130214, builder-3.2.2, bundler-1.3.5, coffee-rails-4.0.1, coffee-script-2.2.0, coffee-script-source-1.7.0, diff-lcs-1.2.5, erubis-2.7.0, execjs-2.1.0, hike-1.2.3, i18n-0.6.9, jbuilder-2.0.7, jquery-rails-3.1.0, json-1.8.1, libv8-3.16.14.3-x86_64-linux, mail-2.5.4, mime-types-1.25.1, mini_portile-0.6.0, minitest-5.3.4, multi_json-1.10.1, net-http-persistent-2.9, nokogiri-1.6.2.1, polyglot-0.3.5, rack-1.5.2, rack-protection-1.5.3, rack-test-0.6.2, rails-4.1.1, railties-4.1.1, rake-10.3.2, rdoc-4.1.1, rdoc-3.9.4, ref-1.0.5, rspec-2.14.1, rspec-core-2.14.8, rspec-expectations-2.14.5, rspec-mocks-2.14.6, rspec-rails-2.14.2, sass-3.2.19, sass-rails-4.0.3, sdoc-0.4.0, sinatra-1.4.5, spring-1.1.3, sprockets-2.11.0, sprockets-rails-2.1.3, sqlite3-1.3.9, therubyracer-0.12.1, thor-0.19.1, thor-0.18.1.20140116, thread_safe-0.3.4, tilt-1.4.1, treetop-1.4.15, turbolinks-2.2.2, tzinfo-1.2.0, uglifier-2.5.0, webrat-0.7.3] (Gem::LoadError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/dependency.rb:256:in `to_spec'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:1231:in `gem'
from /usr/local/bin/rails:22:in `<main>'
I'm still far from as knowledgeable as I'd like to be, but I can see that "rails" is defaulting to usr/lib/bin/rails and I need to reroute it to ~/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ or somewhere around there... not entirely sure where, and I don't know how to get it to do that. Help?

It looks like you are using your system ruby v1.9.1 which is not compatible with rails 4 at all (Rails 4 requires 1.9.3 or higher).
So first you need to set your ruby version using rbenv global 2.1.2 to set it system-wide or rbenv local 2.1.2 if you just want it for this project. I'm not sure if your system will then default to rails-4.1.1 or the newer beta but you can try rails -v to find out. If not, rails _4.2.0.beta1_ new myapp should work.

The Hartl tutorial online uses 4.2.0beta1
Here is what I am seeing:
Install Rails
Once you’ve installed RubyGems, installing Rails should be easy. This
tutorial standardizes on Rails 4.0, which we can install as follows:
$ gem install rails --version 4.0.8
...
but when I try to make a new rails project, it defaults to 4.1.1.
Gemfile:
source 'https://rubygems.org'
ruby '2.0.0'
#ruby-gemset=sample_app2_gems
gem 'rails', '4.0.8'
...
Set the version of rails you want to use in your Gemfile.

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