My understanding is that the "rails:freeze:gems" task copies the Rails source into the application''s vendor directory. Which is why I find the following error surprising and confusing, because the task should not involve writing to system files or directories: % rake rails:freeze:gems (in /Users/tallen/apps/pnc) Freezing to the gems for Rails 2.3.5 rm -rf vendor/rails mkdir -p vendor/rails cd vendor/rails ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError) You don''t have write permissions into the /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/ 1.8 directory. rm -rf vendor/rails Why does the task want to write to that directory? The output was identical with the --trace option. Thomas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.