Getting the warning “Insecure world writable dir /home/chance ” in PATH, mode 040777 for rails and gem

Question

I\'ve tried this but it didn\'t work and seemed to be for osx. I have a fresh Ubuntu 10.10 install with rvm, rails 3 and ruby 1.9.2. I have a fresh rails app but using eithe

Answer 1

You use the chmod go-w to whatever path the terminal gives you.

So if it says /usr/local as the path in the error message:

warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local in PATH, mode 040777

You write

chmod go-w /usr/local