gem install permission problem

Question

qichunren@zhaobak:~> gem install hpricot
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
    You don\'t have write permissions into the /opt/ruby-enter         


        

Answer 1

I was getting this error on my shared server through 1and1 hosting. my solution was adding the --user-install option, which just installs it for your logged in user (which is all you need in a shared server environment) example; installing sass

gem install sass --user-install