Re: Question about fresh GEM install

Berndt Jung
2005-01-06T05:09:15Z

>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