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

(If you are in a Mac) Try the option "Repair Disk Permissions" from the disk utility

Probably a couple of lines in the details log will say:

Permissions differ on “usr”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are drwxrwxrwx.
Repaired “usr”