Rails: rbenv rehash not working (rbenv-shim exists)

Question

I am trying to rehash rbenv after installing a new gem it gives me these error on my ubuntu server

 rbenv: cannot rehash: /home/deployer/.rbenv/shims/.rbenv-shim exists

however .rbenv-shims doesn't exists

score 42 · Accepted Answer · edited May 27 '21 at 12:37

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Might be an issue with directory permissions @ sstephenson/rbenv:

FWIW - I also had this problem, and had to change permissions on the dir where it was checking for the .rbenv-shim... so it could write to the dir, so it stopped complaining.

Also, try:

rm /home/deployer/.rbenv/shims/.rbenv-shim

and run:

rbenv rehash

edited May 27 '21 at 12:37

BinaryButterfly

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answered Dec 03 '14 at 16:46

rebelshrug

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how can I change the permissions for that dir ..I am not an ubuntu guy – Remon Amin Dec 03 '14 at 16:49
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try this: `chmod o+w /home/deployer/.rbenv/shims` or: `chmod 777 /home/deployer/.rbenv/shims` – rebelshrug Dec 03 '14 at 16:52
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what's the output of `ls -l /home/deployer/.rbenv/`? – rebelshrug Dec 03 '14 at 17:00
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/66137/discussion-between-rebelshrug-and-remon-amin). – rebelshrug Dec 03 '14 at 17:01
I had to delete the folder that it was complaining about. – Andrew Koster Aug 06 '19 at 01:06

Rails: rbenv rehash not working (rbenv-shim exists)

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