diff --git a/libexec/rbenv-global b/libexec/rbenv-global
index 837a7b4f..134c26b9 100755
--- a/libexec/rbenv-global
+++ b/libexec/rbenv-global
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 set -e
 
 RBENV_VERSION="$1"
-RBENV_VERSION_FILE="${RBENV_HOME}/global"
+RBENV_VERSION_FILE="${RBENV_ROOT}/global"
 
 if [ -n "$RBENV_VERSION" ]; then
   rbenv-version-file-write "$RBENV_VERSION_FILE" "$RBENV_VERSION"