Eventmachine gem permission denied

Question

I'm trying to run

$gem install eventmachine -v '0.12.10'

because when running

$bundle install

within my rails app, when it gets to eventmachine I get this error:

Installing eventmachine (0.12.10) 
Errno::EACCES: Permission denied - /Users/pippinlee/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/eventmachine-0.12.10/.gitignore
An error occured while installing eventmachine (0.12.10), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install eventmachine -v '0.12.10'` succeeds before bundling.

I have tried adding gem 'eventmachine', '~> 0.12.10' to Gemfile.

As per these (http://nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html) Nokogiri instructions I've installed libxml2, libxslt, libiconv-1.13.1 files with brew.

Using -pre (and corresponding lock in Gemfile) for the install doesn't differ result either.

Running: Lion, Xcode 4.3.2, rvm 1.14.10, ruby 1.9.3p194, rails (3.2.7, 3.2.0)

Thanks in advance.

which is the user you are running bundle from? and which is the user used to install rvm? check the permission in your .rvm directory. — ALoR
As far as I can tell both are under pippinlee. It was ask what happens when I $sudo gem install eventmachine -v '0.12.10' This is the output: [pastebin.com/Bfct7wzG] Appears to be a makefile error. — Pippin

Chris Mowforth Chris Mowforth · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-19T16:30:23

Perhaps the brute-force approach might work:

sudo chown -R pippinlee:staff /Users/pippinlee/.rvm

My guess is you did something, like installing another gem, running as the root user by accident.

Eventmachine gem permission denied

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