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

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

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