gem issue when using sudo

Question

I have made a script that is already working properly in my development environment with RVM. This script reads *.eml files and parses them.

Now, my problem is this. When I transfer it to the production server, it gives a Permission denied - filename.eml (Errno::EACCES) when reading some files. When I manually read these files using sudo nano filename.eml, it is readable so I thought running my ruby script with sudo is the answer.

But when I tried running it with sudo ruby scriptname.rb, this time it gives me a cannot load such file -- mail (LoadError).

The mail gem is clearly installed and is shown both in gem list --local and sudo gem list --local.

The ruby versions are identical with or without sudo (1.9.3).

The mail gem is also accessible using sudo irb then typing require 'mail'.

Both development and production environments are on a Mac OS with RVM-managed ruby versions.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I found my answer to be simply to use `rvmsudo ruby scriptname.rb`. Don't know why it works but it does. — Noel Llevares, Mar 27 '12 at 07:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 25 '12 at 08:29

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maybe the gem is not readable for your server user, such as 'wwwroot', so please make sure the file is 775 mode. e.g.

cd $GEM_HOME
sudo chmod 755 -R .

then everything is readable for other group's users.

answered Mar 25 '12 at 08:29

Siwei

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It is readable. Like I said, I can use `sudo irb` and then `require 'mail'` and it works. – Noel Llevares Mar 25 '12 at 09:19

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