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Ruby RubyGems: Why do I always get error messages when trying to install gems?

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Mar 15, 202617154 views
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So I always seem to get error messages when I'm installing new gems. I'm new to Ruby, Rails, and RubyGems so it makes it very frustrating. I'm not sure if I need to configure something, or if I installed something incorrectly...So hopefully you can help. Here are some examples of the problems that …

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gem install gem-name

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Fix for: Ruby RubyGems: Why do I always get error messages when trying to install gems?

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This would be better as separate questions as I can only answer some. - On OS X, gems are installed in a directory under . Anything here is shared by all users on the Mac and so to be able to write to it you need root access which is what sudo gives…

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