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Sasha
Sasha

Reputation: 6466

Permissions error with gem install

I had a very weird problem yesterday, where in the middle of trying to figure out some heroku problems, my whole Rails environment just disappeared. Bundle, RVM, rails, etc were no longer recognized. So I just ignored the possible cause and reinstalled everything. Mostly worked, but now I'm running into permissions problems. If I bundle install, it needs me to input my computer password for permission.

And I just ran into the following problem trying to "gem install heroku" in a new directory I wanted to deploy.

ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError) You don't have write permissions into the /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 directory.

Any idea how I get those permissions back so things run smoothly again?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1022

Answers (1)

Phu Phan
Phu Phan

Reputation: 161

Use chmod on the directory something like this:

sudo chmod -R g+w /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8

That might work.

Upvotes: 1

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