Question

I’ve just done a fresh install of RubyMine 4.5 in order to get a quickstart on Rails dev.

Whenever I try and install any Gem using the Tools > Quick Install Gem… command, I get the following error (below is specific to the flickraw gem)

Failed to Install Gems

Following gems were not installed:

flickraw(0.9.6): While executing gem …

(Errno::EACCESS)

Permission denied – /Users/Andy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/cache/flickraw-0.9.6.gem

I guess I get that it’s a permissions error…but why is it happening, shouldn’t this just work? And how do I fix it?

I’m running this on the latest version of OSX Mountain Lion.

Answer 1

I’ve had similar problems before, it turned out to be caused by sudo being the owner of some gems installed in that rvm ruby installation I was using. I guess I installed something with sudo by accident, I dunno– but go check in /Users/Andy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/cache and /Users/Andy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems and see if sudo owns cache/flickraw-0.9.6.gem or any folders in gems and if needed change the owner and group back to you … I actually had so many messed up I opted to just remove and rebuild that ruby.