From: Nikolay Pavlov <qpadla@...>
Date: 2008-02-02T08:27:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Cannot run any gem as non-root user - freebsd 6.2

On Saturday 02 February 2008 00:37:39 Gordon Pedersen wrote:
> On my freeBSD 6.2 laptop I recently installed ruby 1.8.6 and ruby gems
> from ports.  Then (as root) used 'gem' to update itself and to install
> rails.  All of this proceeded without error - although it took so long
> I'd hate to have to repeat it.
>
> <code>
> # cd /usr/ports/lang/ruby18
> # make install
> # cd /usr/ports/devel/ruby-gems
> # make install
> # gem update --system
> # gem install cheat
> # gem install rails
> </code>

May i ask you what's the purpose of such self shooting command execution?
The ruby-gems port is already the latest one.
The rails port could be installed very easily. You can skip all those 
commands and execute just:
cd /usr/ports/www/rubygem-rails ; make install clean
The end.
But i recommend to read this handbook chapter first:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html 

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