Dancing with RVM

At some point something must have gone wrong with my installation of RVM - Ruby Version Manager. Specifically, something must have happened with permissions, as I was being forced to use sudo more and more often when I wanted to install a gem or even do bundle install!

At some point it became ridiculous, as I couldn't do anything without sudo anymore - even saving a Sublime file when working on an app. I tried to reinstall, but still no luck. Later, it turned out that my installation of RVM was probably system-wide instead of user-specific and my user name was not added to it.

Other than reinstalling, the following steps should help to fix the nightmare:

• in terminal, type id and see if there is a group called 'rvm' in the list of the results;


• if not, create a group by typing rvm group create rvm


• add yourself as a user by typing rvm group add rvm your_user_name


• fix permissions by typing rvm fix-permissions


• make sure you have a stable version: rvm get stable


• restart, as it might be required for the changes to take effect.

I'm writing this up in case if something goes wrong again, there is a complete list of instructions. Hopefully, no more dancing with RVM.