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

If you're using rbenv and this is happening, you need to add the following to your .bash_profile:

export RBENV_ROOT="$HOME/.rbenv"

if [ -d $RBENV_ROOT ]; then
  export PATH="$RBENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"
  eval "$(rbenv init -)"
fi