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Jeremy Smith
Jeremy Smith

Reputation: 15069

Not able to install gems as non-root user

I have RVM installed, it was installed as root. The permissions are:

drwxrwsr-x 23 root rvm   4096 2011-09-17 15:22 rvm

Here is an example of my trying to install a gem as sudo:

ubuntu@ip-10-2-15-243:/usr/local/rvm$ sudo gem install bundler
Successfully installed bundler-1.0.18
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for bundler-1.0.18...
Installing RDoc documentation for bundler-1.0.18...

ubuntu@ip-10-2-15-243:/usr/local/rvm$ gem list

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

rake (0.9.2)

The strange thing is that if I "sudo su -" and then install the gem as root, it works. Is it a problem with how ubuntu is listed in the sudoers file?

ubuntu  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

I did edit sudoers with VIM, and it told me to use VISUDO so I'm not sure if that created a problem.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2461

Answers (3)

Brian
Brian

Reputation: 16

I had the same problem and this worked for me. It turns out that all other methods installed into the global gemset, which is why the command returns without an error

script 'bundle gems' do
  user 'root'
  code <<-EOH
    . "/usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm"
    cd /your/directory
    rvm rvmrc trust
    BUNDLE_WITHOUT=test bundle install
    exit $?
  EOH
  interpreter 'bash'
end

Upvotes: 0

Arnaud Meuret
Arnaud Meuret

Reputation: 984

The RVM environment is probably not loaded by sudo.

Try running:

sudo -i gem install bundler

-i is : "simulate initial login"

Sorry but I can not verify it by myself at the moment.

Upvotes: 0

yfeldblum
yfeldblum

Reputation: 65435

Try using rvmsudo instead of sudo.

If this is in the context of a chef run, you can use this resource:

execute "gem-install-bundler" do
  user "root"
  command <<-COMMAND
    bash -c '
      source {{{/path/to/rvm}}}
      rvm use {{{ruby-version}}}
      gem install bundler
    '
  COMMAND
end

Upvotes: 1

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