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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Getting Started with Rails Installing Rails (Mac)

Posted by abdi ali
abdi ali
10,920 Points

installing rails

Last login: Tue Jun 9 15:25:12 on console abdis-MacBook-Air:~ abdiali$ gem install bundler ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError) You don't have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0 directory. abdis-MacBook-Air:~ abdiali$ cd /Library/Ruby/gems abdis-MacBook-Air:gems abdiali$ ls 2.0.0 abdis-MacBook-Air:gems abdiali$ ls -l total 0 drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 238 Sep 10 2014 2.0.0 abdis-MacBook-Air:gems abdiali$ a+w gems -bash: a+w: command not found abdis-MacBook-Air:gems abdiali$ chomd a+w gems -bash: chomd: command not found abdis-MacBook-Air:gems abdiali$ clear

abdi ali
abdi ali
10,920 Points

i tried to install both gems and bundler but i am getting the file permision is not allowed

1 Answer

Tom Sager
Tom Sager
18,987 Points
Tom Sager
Tom Sager
18,987 Points

You have the right idea, but there is a typo: it should be chmod, not chomd.

For a cleaner approach, you might look at the sudo command rather than adding global write permissions.