Rails: Your user account isn't allowed to install to the system RubyGems
In my case, I solved doing just what the error message suggests:
Your user account isn't allowed to install to the system RubyGems. You can cancel this installation and run: bundle install --path vendor/bundle to install the gems into ./vendor/bundle/
So, instead of:
bundle install
I ran:
bundle install --path vendor/bundle
That was the solution for this guy.
The downside of that solution is that it creates a vendor
folder inside the current folder, which can be added to .gitignore
if it is to distribute the application through Git.
Usually if you're using RVM, rbenv or chruby to install Ruby, all the gems will be installed in your home folder under ~/.rbenv/ruby-version/...
If you're using your system Ruby though (the one that is installed by default) the gems are installed alongside it in a location that you don't have access to without sudo
.
My guess would be that your version manager defaults to the system Ruby but some of your projects have a .ruby-version file in them that tells it to use a different version of Ruby which you have access to.
I had a similar experience. I would have simply ran the code below to fix it temporarily
bundle install --path vendor/bundle
The downside to this is that it does not solve the issue permanently, as the issue will re-surface when you start out with other Ruby on Rails Applications.
I tried this solution, but it did not work for me:
Display a list of all your local gems for the bundler gem
gem list bundler
N/B: The command above is for rbenv version manager, the one for rvm might be different
This will display the versions of the bundler gem installed locally
bundler (2.0.2, default: 1.17.3, 1.10.6)
And then ran the code below below to uninstall version 1.10.6
gem uninstall bundler
Afterwhich I ran the code below to rehash rbenv
rbenv rehash
However, this did not solve the issue.
Here's how I solved it;
The issue was that I mistakenly ran a bundle install
operation with administrative rights, that is:
sudo bundle install
which made the owner of the ~/.rbenv
OR ~/.rvm
directory to become root
To solve the issue I ran the code below to change the ownership of the files and directories.
For rbenv users:
sudo chown -R $USER ~/.rbenv
And for RVM users
sudo chown -R $USER ~/.rvm
That's it.
I hope this helps