Re: Question about fresh GEM install

Tobias Luetke
2005-01-06T05:21:10Z

I''m running darwinports pointed to /usr/local works great.


On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:09:15 -0800, Berndt Jung
<berndtj-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> >One thing that may be important is that I don''t have write
access to the
> >directory that the Rails gem is installed in
> >(/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.9.3) since I''m not
an admin
> >of this machine, would this be a possible cause of the problem?
>
> I''m guessing by the "opt" directory that you are on OSX.
My one gripe
> with darwinports is that it wants to use that directory rather than
> usr/local, although, you can chage the default.  Anyway, I was having
> all sorts of issues getting rails installed, and they were all due to
> permissions.  You will need write access.  All of the directories that
> rails installs are chmodded with 775 or 755 (don''t remember right
> now), but the point is, that once you get rails installed you
won''t
> have the same issues.  Try to get admin access just to get rails
> installed, and after that you should be fine.
>
> Berndt
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