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authorColby Swandale <colby@taplaboratories.com>2016-09-18 14:57:40 +1000
committerColby Swandale <colby@taplaboratories.com>2016-09-18 14:57:40 +1000
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@@ -12,14 +12,20 @@ Detailed information about each Bundler command, including help with common prob
### Permission denied when installing bundler
-Certain operating systems such as MacOS and Ubuntu have versions of Ruby that requires evelated privileges to install gems.
+Certain operating systems such as MacOS and Ubuntu have versions of Ruby that require evelated privileges to install gems.
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0 directory.
-This is typically solved by prepending the command with `sudo`.
+There are multiple ways to solve this issue. You can install bundler with elevated privilges using `sudo` or `su`.
sudo gem install bundler
+
+If you cannot elevated your privileges or do not want to globally install Bundler, you can use the `--user-install` option.
+
+ gem install bundler --user-install
+
+This will install Bundler into your home directory. Note that you will need to append `~/.gem/ruby/<ruby version>/bin` to your `$PATH` variable to use `bundle`.
### Heroku errors