Installing in Homebrew errors

Question

Attempting to install rvm and ruby 1.9.2

I already installed homebrew and git, but couldn\'t get complete updates because I kept getting permission errors. Re-install

Answer 1

I suggest ensuring that the current user is a member of the group that owns /usr/local. I believe by default, that group is wheel. To make yourself a member of that group:

$ sudo dscl . append /Groups/wheel GroupMembership $USER

Although something of an inelegant hammer, it has the intended effect - enabling access to items in /usr/local that are intended only for use (read/write) by elevated members. This approach has benefits of the other above because it takes advantage of the group memberships, enabling multiple (authorized) users on the system to use homebrew.