From: eepeterson <eepeterson@...>
Date: 2009-10-21T03:40:06+09:00
Subject: Re: /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rdoc/ri/driver.rb:384:in `initialize': 	Permission denied

On Oct 20, 2:35 pm, Aaron Patterson <aa...@tenderlovemaking.com>
wrote:
> eepeterson wrote:
> > I'm getting the following error when I try to run 'ri' command. I'm
> > running on Snow Leopard if that helps at all.
>
> > /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rdoc/ri/driver.rb:384:in `initialize':
> > Permission denied - /Users/erik_mbp/.ri/cache/.doc_dirs
> > (Errno::EACCES)
> >    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rdoc/ri/driver.rb:384:in `open'
> >    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rdoc/ri/driver.rb:384:in
> > `create_class_cache'
> >    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rdoc/ri/driver.rb:371:in `class_cache'
> >    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rdoc/ri/driver.rb:591:in `block in
> > run'
> >    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rdoc/ri/driver.rb:590:in `each'
> >    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rdoc/ri/driver.rb:590:in `run'
> >    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rdoc/ri/driver.rb:300:in `run'
> >    from /usr/local/bin/ri:5:in `<main>'
>
> > ANy ideas on how I can fix this?
>
> Looks like you ran "ri" with some other user (probably root) and it
> created a directory in your ".ri" directory that you cannot read.  You
> need to either fix the permissions here:
>
>   /Users/erik_mbp/.ri/cache/.doc_dirs
>
> Look at the "chown" command.
>
> Or just rm your ".ri" directory and like rdoc rebuild it.
>
> --
> Aaron Pattersonhttp://tenderlovemaking.com/

any chance you could give me some further info on how to fix the
permissions. I'm slowing learning more terminal commands but still
need help obviously...