From: Gavin Kistner <gavin.kistner@...>
Date: 2006-09-13T09:42:10+09:00
Subject: Can't install gems with sudo

I just built ruby 1.8.5 myself, and now rubygems can't find remote gems when I run it with sudo privs. It can find the gems when I run it as myself, but then it doesn't have priviliges needed to install the gem. Did I miss something obvious? 

[Sliver:~] gkistner$ which ruby
/usr/local/bin/ruby
[Sliver:~] gkistner$ which gem
/usr/local/bin/gem
[Sliver:~] gkistner$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [powerpc-darwin8.7.0]
[Sliver:~] gkistner$ gem -v
0.9.0
[Sliver:~] gkistner$ sudo gem install rake
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
    Could not find rake (> 0) in the repository
[Sliver:~] gkistner$ gem install rake
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES)
    Permission denied - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/rake-0.7.1.gem