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Ruby Installing Rails on Mac

Posted by Rob Cleaton
Rob Cleaton
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I'm getting a Permission denied error while trying to install and execute Rails from the terminal.

Getting the following feedback from the Terminal

Successfully installed rails-5.0.0 ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES) Permission denied @ dir_s_mkdir - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/doc/activesupport-5.0.0

Tyler Shand
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Tyler Shand
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 15,043 Points
Tyler Shand
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Tyler Shand
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 15,043 Points

Are you installing with sudo? That might explain the 'Permission denied'.

If that isn't the case, could you send me the command you're using to install?