how to install gems without sudo
ruby, rubygems
Solution
Use `chown` on the whole `.rvm` and `.gem` directories back to your user. You probably used `sudo` before and it screwed up permissions.
sudo chown -R username:group ~/.rvm
sudo chown -R username:group ~/.gem
Of course, change username to your username and group to your group
Problem
On all my gem installs I have to do sudo ? So sudo gem install rails will work, while only gem install rails will not work. How do I remedy it ? I have rvm installed - ``` murtaza@murtaza-dev:~$ which rvm /home/murtaza/.rvm/bin/rvm murtaza@murtaza-dev:~$ which gem /home/murtaza/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/gem ``` However I am also getting this warning when I do any operations with gem - ``` murtaza@murtaza-dev:~$ gem /home/murtaza/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/gem:4: warning: Insecure world writable dir /opt in PATH, mode 040777 ``` EDIT I have reinstalled rvm using `curl -L get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --auto` (without sudo). However still when I try installing gem it gives me the following error - ``` murtaza@murtaza-dev:~$ gem install rails /home/murtaza/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/gem:4: warning: Insecure world writable dir /opt in PATH, mode 040777 ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES) Permission denied - /home/murtaza/.gem/specs ``` EDIT I did chown on the whole thing but still getting the error - ``` murtaza@murtaza-dev:~$ sudo chown murtaza.murtaza -R ~/.rvm/* murtaza@murtaza-dev:~$ gem install rails /home/murtaza/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/gem:4: warning: Insecure world writable dir /opt in PATH, mode 040777 ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES) Permission denied - /home/murtaza/.gem/specs ```