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macOS comes with some default ruby installations, more here, that I do not want to overwrite by running gems commands as sudo. I tried rbenv, instructed here, but I am getting a permission error in the last command gem update --system such that

brew update
brew install ruby
echo 'export PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.4.1_1/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile #bash
brew install rbenv ruby-build
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile  # bash
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile               # bash
rbenv install 2.4.1
rbenv local 2.4.1
rbenv global 2.4.1
rbenv rehash
gem update --system
Updating rubygems-update 
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError) You don't have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0 directory.

I do not want to intervene with the default ruby installation in macOS, not to get the need for a fresh installation of the whole OS.

What is a proper way to install newer version of Ruby on macOS without intervening with the default ruby?

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  • The command you mentioned isn't included in the answer you refer to. Can you add the whole sequence of commands you've used? – nohillside♦ Jun 27 '17 at 14:58
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    Try to run the commands from rbenv onwards in a newly started shell so that the PATH gets set correctly. – nohillside♦ Jun 27 '17 at 15:41
  • @patrix I got the command run, by testing the last command in a new shell, but unable to install packages with gem, shown here, this may be a small pkg-related problem or bigger problem, dunno yet. – hhh Jun 27 '17 at 16:06
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Looks like you only update PATH etc in the shell profiles, but not in the running shell. Try to run the commands from rbenv onwards in a newly spawned shell.

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  • Thank you for the answer, moved the question about LoadError here. – hhh Jun 27 '17 at 22:20

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