getting error while installing ruby on rails at debian 5.0

Question

i successfully installed rvm and ruby 1.9.2 at my debian lenny machine

   rvm -v
   rvm 1.8.2 by Wayne E. Seguin (wayneeseguin@gmail.com) [https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/]

   ruby -v
   ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [x86_64-linux]

now i wanted to install rails

    rvm install rails

i got some errors and can't solve these problems

    Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
    /home/mrie/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/ext/builder.rb:48: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home in PATH, mode 040777

i already tried this why and where stands /home in $PATH ?

Answer 1

This has nothing to do with $PATH (well, as far as I know :p). It means that your home directory ( /home , in this case) has too many permissions. As far as I can see, it's set to 777 , which means that just anybody can read, write and execute files in your home directory, which obviously is unsafe.

You should change your directory's rights as following:

chmod 755 /home

Do not use the -R flag (which stands for recursive ). Files should only have 644 , not 755 .

Answer 2

BTW, you don't use rvm to install rails with.

You do something like: rvm install 1.9.2 && rvm --create use 1.9.2@foo && gem install rails