[MacRuby-devel] Can I install gems without sudo?

[Laurent Sansonetti]

Hi,

I guess you can still pass --install-dir, butI wonder why we don't fall back on the ~/.gems repository in case the system one isn't writable. Could you file a ticket about this? I will have a look.

Thanks,
Laurent

On Nov 10, 2010, at 12:57 AM, Zhi-Qiang Lei wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> Can I install gems without sudo? I want them to be installed in .gems under my home folder. Thanks.
> 
> bogon% macgem install -V data_mapper
> Fetching http://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
> OK
> Fetching http://rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz
> OK
> Installing gem extlib-0.9.15
> unknown: warning: ignoring alias
> unknown: warning: ignoring alias
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES)
>    Permission denied - /Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.7/usr/lib/ruby/Gems
> 
> Best regards,
> Zhi-Qiang Lei
> zhiqiang.lei at gmail.com
> 
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