Yes, please sign in as root, and be sure you get the path right: is starts /System... but not -/System...
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:27 PM, elle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry for the late reply -- for some reason missed your post till now. > Running the command with the correct path and sudo, asks me if I want > to remove executables: rails in addition to the gem? [Yn] > When I say y, I get an error: > ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError) > You don't have write permissions into the /System/Library/ > Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/bin > directory. > > Should I sign in as root? > > Cheers, > Elle > > On Feb 15, 11:16 am, Charles Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > The problem is with your path. You want /System/Library... > > but you are doing -/System/Library... > > > > See the difference? > > > > Cheers-- > > > > Charles > > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:35 PM, elle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > gem list -d rails gives me: > > > > > *** LOCAL GEMS *** > > > > > rails (2.2.2, 1.2.6) > > > Author: David Heinemeier Hansson > > > Rubyforge:http://rubyforge.org/projects/rails > > > Homepage:http://www.rubyonrails.org > > > Installed at (2.2.2): /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 > > > (1.2.6): /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/ > > > Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 > > > > > Web-application framework with template engine, control-flow > > > layer, > > > and ORM. > > > > > Then running: > > > sudo gem uninstall --install-dir -/System/Library/Frameworks/ > > > Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 rails > > > gives me: > > > > > ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::InstallError) > > > Unknown gem rails >= 0 > > > > > Elle > > > > > On Feb 14, 8:19 am, Charles Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:43 PM, elle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Running it with sudo I get: > > > > > > > ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::InstallError) > > > > > Unknown gem rails >= 0 > > > > > > > Do I need to actually sign in as root? > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > Elle > > > > > > You should be OK with sudo. Can you post your *exact* command line, > and > > > the > > > > output from gem list -d rails > > > > > > HTH > > > > > > Charles > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
