I am trying to install create a new app in Ruby on Rails and I cannot get passed this error:
$ gem install pg
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES)
Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - /Users/stormyramsey/.rbenv/versions/2.3.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/pg-0.21.0/.gemtest
It's likely there's a permissions problem somewhere along the .rbenv path. You might try turning on write privileges for your user with:
$ chmod -R +w ~/.rbenv
That will recursively (-R
) change the file mode (chmod
) to write permission (+w
) for all files and directories under your user's .rbenv path. There's no particular reason for not having files set to write.
Its a permissions issue. You could fix it with this:
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /Library/Ruby/Gems/*
or possibly in your case
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /Users/stormyramsey/.rbenv/versions/2.3.2/lib/ruby/gems/*