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Chris
Chris

Reputation: 748

How to tell rvm where to install gem packages

Normally, when I try to create a gemset using rvm, it places any gems in $HOME/.rvm

However, on one machine when I run:

rvm use 1.8.7-p358@chris_gems --create

The command tries to write to the directory /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p358

and as a result I get permission errors.

I tried search the web for command line arguments to "rvm" related to the install path but didn't find anything after a 10 minute search (perhaps I'm sucking at Googling). Also I tried setting GEM_HOME, GEM_PATH to my home directory. But that didn't make a difference.

Any suggestions on how I can get rvm to install stuff in $HOME/.rvm Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 293

Answers (1)

mpapis
mpapis

Reputation: 53158

There are two ways to make it working:

  1. add your user to rvm group - this will allow your user to write gemsets in system

  2. run rvm user gemsets - this will make all new gemsets to be created in $HOME/.rvm

Upvotes: 2

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