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Chase Lester
Chase Lester
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Posted by Chase Lester
Chase Lester
10,972 Points

Installing Sass issue

I am in the Sass learning videos and on the second video on installing Sass I put this on the command line "gem install sass" and get this message "ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError) You don't have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0 directory."

Should I use sudo?

8 Answers

Hampton Catlin
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Hampton Catlin
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Hampton Catlin
Hampton Catlin
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Chase, I was using "rvm" which is an advanced way to manage Ruby installs on Mac's and doesn't require sudo.

If you aren't a Ruby developer, just add "sudo" to the front of the command and install it system-wide. It's a simple and easy way to install on OS X.

Chase Lester
Chase Lester
10,972 Points
Chase Lester
Chase Lester
10,972 Points

Just on the terminal on mac

Ross Litzenberger
Ross Litzenberger
11,706 Points
Ross Litzenberger
Ross Litzenberger
11,706 Points

i dont use sudo because i get lot of error messing with mac default code.

Chase Lester
Chase Lester
10,972 Points
Chase Lester
Chase Lester
10,972 Points

Alright... I got it going! Thanks. But what if I plan on going through the Ruby on Rails course in the near future... did I mess things up for that?

Hampton Catlin
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Hampton Catlin
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Hampton Catlin
Hampton Catlin
Treehouse Guest Teacher

No, probably not! I think I have sass installed about 4 different ways on my machine. ;)

Ross Litzenberger
Ross Litzenberger
11,706 Points
Ross Litzenberger
Ross Litzenberger
11,706 Points

Hampton what is the pro and cons between Rvm or Rbenv

Hampton Catlin
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Hampton Catlin
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Hampton Catlin
Hampton Catlin
Treehouse Guest Teacher

That's probably out of scope for this question, but it's just a matter of taste. I tend to prefer rvm, because it's a bit more "everything you need" while rbenv is a more minimalist tool, if you want something less magical.