Rails first time setup: ruby setup.rb Permission Denied @ rb_sysopen

I'm working through the initial rails tutorial setup: https://docs.webfaction.com/software/rails.html

Step 11 is not working:

ruby setup.rb install --prefix=$HOME/webapps/app

[<redacted>@web532 rubygems-3.0.0]$ ruby setup.rb install --prefix=$HOME/webapps/tembees ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES) Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - /usr/local/lib/ruby25/ruby/gems/2.5.0/specifications/default/bundler-1.17.2.gemspec [<redacted>@web532 rubygems-3.0.0]$

I have followed the export steps:

echo $PATH

/home/<redacted>/webapps/tembees/bin:/home/<redacted>/webapps/tembees/bin:/home/<redacted>/webapps/tembees/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/<redacted>/bin

echo $RUBYLIB

/home/<redacted>/webapps/tembees/lib

echo $GEM_HOME

/home/<redacted>/webapps/tembees/gems

asked 21 Dec '18, 05:10

ktemby
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edited 21 Dec '18, 06:37

If it is a new Rails app, created using our panel, it has the latest version of gems pre-installed:

[kclnto@web532 ~]$ cd webapps/tembees
[kclnto@web532 tembees]$ export PATH=$PWD/bin:$PATH
[kclnto@web532 tembees]$ export GEM_HOME=$PWD/gems
[kclnto@web532 tembees]$ export RUBYLIB=$PWD/lib
[kclnto@web532 tembees]$ which gem
~/webapps/tembees/bin/gem
[kclnto@web532 tembees]$ gem -v
3.0.0

Is there a specific reason you are trying to re-install the same version?

(21 Dec '18, 09:41) iliasr ♦♦

Thank you @iliasr - I'm just following the tutorial directly https://docs.webfaction.com/software/rails.html

If I don't need to do step 11, then I guess I should keep going?!

(21 Dec '18, 18:13) ktemby

For a new app you only really need to follow "Installing Ruby on Rails". The other parts are complimentary and you should only use them if you need to.

(21 Dec '18, 21:08) NickR ♦♦

Awesome, ok thank you so much @NickR and @iliasr

(22 Dec '18, 21:42) ktemby

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