How to install a gem via user account?

March 25, 2015 2.5k views
Ruby on Rails
anishajayan
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anishajayan

I am logged in as user. I gave all root privileges to user. Now I am doing bundle install. It is breaking by saying "Make sure that gem install nokogiri before bundling. Now when I try to install by gem install nokogiri , it says permission denied. When I try it with sudo gem install nokogiri, then it says "sudo: gem: command not found". How can I install this gem?

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  • ryanpq MOD March 25, 2015

    If you have Ruby installed I am not sure why sudo would say that the command was not found. I would recommend checking that Ruby is installed:

    sudo apt-get update;
sudo apt-get install ruby

    Then try running the gem install using the full path:

    sudo /usr/bin/gem install nokogiri

    Some gems may require additional libraries in order to build and if you encounter errors you may want to try installing ruby-dev and build-essential to start with.

  • anishajayan March 26, 2015
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ryanpq MOD June 9, 2016

This question was answered by @anishajayan:

swapon solved this issue. I followed this- "https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-12-04"

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How To Add Swap on Ubuntu 12.04
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