I would strongly suggest you look into rvm to manage your ruby/rails environments. But you might also want to install gem as your own user as opposed to root. The new gems will be kept somewhere in your home directory.
- Victor On Jun 30, 1:03 pm, emptyset <empty...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm reposting this here from my original post on Superuser[1], to > hopefully get more relevant feedback from more experienced RoR users. > I need to get a RoR environment up and running, because I have a > client that needs some RoR work done on her website. Although I'm new > to RoR, I'm a quick learner and was expecting installing and setting > up the environment was easy, so I could focus my effort on site > development. I've already spent five days trying to get the > environment up so I could just begin working. I'll probably have > follow up questions to this group (seems I can't get script/server to > work at all) - but for now, this is the immediate concern. > > Update #3: Starting over from scratch, shortened this post, decided to > re-install a clean copy of Ubuntu 10.04 on a VM and go through the > walk-through[0] again. So, all the steps go without a hitch. As root: > > r...@ubuntu:~/rubygems-1.3.7# ruby -v > ruby1.8.7(2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [x86_64-linux] > r...@ubuntu:~/rubygems-1.3.7# gem -v > 1.3.7 > r...@ubuntu:~/rubygems-1.3.7# rails -v > Rails 2.3.8 > Now, as myself (in a separate term): > > empty...@ubuntu:~$ ruby -v > ruby1.8.7(2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [x86_64-linux] > empty...@ubuntu:~$ gem -v > /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:10:in `require': no such file > to load -- rubygems/defaults (LoadError) > from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:10 > from /usr/local/bin/gem:8:in `require' > from /usr/local/bin/gem:8 > empty...@ubuntu:~$ rails -v > bash: /usr/bin/rails: Permission denied > > So, this appears to be a permissions issue, but I don't understand > why. Specifically, if I have to start making things go+rx all over the > place, I really need to understand which specific files need the > permissions change. > > Site references: > [0]http://castilho.biz/blog/2010/05/08/how-to-install-ruby-on-rails-on-u... > [1]http://superuser.com/questions/156498/installing-ruby-on-rails-on-ubu... -- 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-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
