ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)

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$ gem install passenger
Fetching: passenger-4.0.5.gem (100%)
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions for the /Users/snowcrash/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195 directory.
$ ls -ld /Users/snowcrash/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195
drwxrwsr-x  8 root  rvm  272 21 May 16:07 /Users/snowcrash/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195

Clearly my version of ruby is owned by root/rvm.

I'm not happy with this SO answer which suggests making .gem/specs world-writable: Permission denied error with RVM

and this SO answer is for a specific gem: Error while executing gem...Permission Denied

Any better suggestions?

Perhaps repair permissions / ownership on the .rvm directory?

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 24 '13 at 20:54

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RVM has a command to fix permissions:

rvm get head
rvm fix-permissions

answered Jun 24 '13 at 20:54

mpapis

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how this solution helped solving the FilePermissionError? – Selvakumar Esra May 28 '14 at 16:04
`rvm fix-permissions` resets access to all files / directories within RVM directory structure - and all gems are installed in `$rvm_path/gems/...` – mpapis May 29 '14 at 10:39

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 15 '14 at 14:23

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You can try to take ownership of the .rvm directory with something like:

sudo chown -R groupname:username /Users/username/.rvm

Where username is your user login name. The groupname is optional.

edited Jan 15 '14 at 14:23

Rob O

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answered Jun 22 '13 at 08:54

Ian Kenney

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 16 '23 at 10:30

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Using the principle of Less Complexity, the obvious answer was:

sudo gem install passenger

If you start using rvm or rbenv then you start going down the path of additional complexity.

Then you start running into all the problems they create.

answered Feb 16 '23 at 10:30

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ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)

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