The reason is that you have an out of date version of ruby-build? Run:
cd /Users/christopher/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build && git pull && cd -
ChristophersMBP:bin christopher$ rbenv install 2.6.1
ruby-build: definition not found: 2.6.1
See all available versions with `rbenv install --list'.
If the version you need is missing, try upgrading ruby-build:
cd /Users/christopher/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build && git pull && cd -
ChristophersMBP:bin christopher$ cd /Users/christopher/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build && git pull && cd -
remote: Enumerating objects: 280, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (280/280), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (17/17), done.
remote: Total 423 (delta 261), reused 276 (delta 259), pack-reused 143
Receiving objects: 100% (423/423), 110.66 KiB | 7.90 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (312/312), completed with 64 local objects.
From https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build
648fc99..ca85eba master -> origin/master
* [new tag] v20190423 -> v20190423
* [new tag] v20181207 -> v20181207
* [new tag] v20181225 -> v20181225
* [new tag] v20190130 -> v20190130
* [new tag] v20190314 -> v20190314
* [new tag] v20190320 -> v20190320
* [new tag] v20190401 -> v20190401
Updating 648fc99..ca85eba
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bin/ruby-build
No, the actual issue is that your PATH was wrong. You were missing the SHIMs directory:
export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/shims:$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"
This didn't help but running this command got me the help I needed...