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

I'm in a Mac, so /home/username did not work for me. However, when I tried to changing permissions for /User/username, the error persisted.

The thing that got it working was chmod go-w /User/username/.rvm