Gem::FilePermissionError

[Arivarasan Lingasamy]

while i updating my rails version with command,

gem install -v=2.3.8 rails

i got,

ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions into the /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
directory.

how could i solve the problem?
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[Luke Cowell]

Try,

sudo gem install -v=2.3.8 rails

or su to root before you run the command.

Luke

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[Arivarasan Lingasamy]

nice, now it works...

Thanks,
L. Arivarasan

[sriram a.]

ariv arasan wrote in post #945121:

> while i updating my rails version with command,
>
> gem install -v=2.3.8 rails
>
> i got,
>
> ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
> You don't have write permissions into the /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
> directory.
>
> how could i solve the problem?

Thanks for your help not it works.