# WARNING: You don't have /Users/sammat/.gem/ruby /1.8/bin in your PATH, 	 gem executables will not

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 6, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/warning-you-dont-have-users-sammat-gem-ruby-1-8-bin-in-your-path-gem-executables-will-not/175040 "2009-09-06T20:36:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![sammat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@sammat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sammat)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/warning-you-dont-have-users-sammat-gem-ruby-1-8-bin-in-your-path-gem-executables-will-not/175040/1 "2009-09-06T20:36:59Z")

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Hello,

I’m new to OS X and I’m new to RoR.

Here’s what I see when going through my first tutorial on RoR.

“WARNING: Installing to ~/.gem since /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 and  
/usr/bin aren’t both writable.  
WARNING: You don’t have /Users/sammat/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin in your PATH,  
gem executables will not run.”

Could someone give a complete newbie instructions on how to fix this?

Cheers!

Sam

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**Author:** ![sammat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@sammat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sammat)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/warning-you-dont-have-users-sammat-gem-ruby-1-8-bin-in-your-path-gem-executables-will-not/175040/2 "2009-09-06T20:41:40Z")

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On Sep 6, 5:00 pm, sammat [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Could someone give a complete newbie instructions on how to fix this?

Depending on what you are doing you may not to do anything. What gem  
is saying is that since you didn’t run it with sudo it couldn’t  
install the gem in the usual location so it stashed it in your home  
folder instead. It is also warning you that if the gem had an  
executable (eg the rails gem provides the rails executable) that  
executable is not in a folder that is part of PATH. You could  
uninstall gems installed like this and install them again using sudo  
gem install … if this is worrying you

Fred

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**Author:** ![sammat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@sammat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sammat)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 9:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/warning-you-dont-have-users-sammat-gem-ruby-1-8-bin-in-your-path-gem-executables-will-not/175040/3 "2009-09-07T09:52:22Z")

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Hello Sam,

I am not experienced with OS X my self, but since its a unix based  
system, i can make a wild guess that you aren’t using sudo while  
installing the gem.

your gem installation line should be something like this:

sudo gem install gem\_name

Regards 😉