gem install rails ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES)

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I somehow messed my $PATH up. (changed it) and my ruby and rails gems weren't working. What I did in efforts to fix this was to reinstall RVM. Now my ruby works fine in the Terminal. On running `gem install rails`I get greeted with this: `Permission denied - /Users/emKaro/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/atomic-1.1.13/test/test_atomic.rb ` When I try to install rails through `sudo gem install rails`, I get this error: ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES) I have XCode installed with Command-Line tools installed as well. Even went ahead to install GCC but get the very same error when I try to install rails. This is the full error message ``` ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES) Permission denied - /Users/emKaro/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/atomic-1.1.13/test/test_atomic.rb emmanuels-imac:~ siaW$ sudo gem install rails Password: Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing rails: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /Users/emK…

Accepted Answer

Like Dave pointed out up there, there should be no need to sudo any Gem installation. You could try to reset the permissions on your RVM directory:

```
sudo chown -R emKaro: ~/.rvm/
```

and try your Gem instllation again. If that doesn't work out, you should consider removing your RVM installation and start over:

```
sudo rm -rf ~/.rvm/   # remove your RVM directory
```

There should really be no need for using sudo in any of this.

gem install rails ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES)

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