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Ruby Installing a Ruby on Rails Development Environment in Ubuntu

Aya Yousef
Aya Yousef
9,658 Points
Posted by Aya Yousef
Aya Yousef
9,658 Points

Error installing rails

Hi, I've an error in installing rails by this command: $ gem install rails

I get this error message :

Fetching: thread_safe-0.3.5.gem (100%) ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES) Permission denied @ dir_s_mkdir - /var/lib/gems/2.2.0

How can I fix it?

1 Answer

Tim Knight
Tim Knight
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Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points

Aya,

You probably just need to tell Rubygems that you have access to check that new system folder and you can do that using sudo. See if that works for you:

$ sudo gem install rails

Then it'll ask you for your password to authenticate.