[LRUG] Ruby environment under Solaris

[Jared Patterson]

Hey Riccardo,

To allow you to update your own gems using sudo, just ask your admin to add something like the following into '/etc/sudoers', which is based on your username:

riccardo  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/gem *

Ofcourse, being Solaris, you will need to check where the gem binary resides, (which gem) should do the trick. Also, if sudo was installed with the solaris package, the sudoers file is likely to be in '/opt/sfw/etc/sudoers'.

Incase you cant locate it, trying using truss to find it (as root):

truss -o /tmp/truss.out sudo ls
grep sudoers /tmp/truss.out

you should see something like:
open("/opt/sfw/etc/sudoers", O_RDONLY) = 4


Cheers

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From: chat-bounces at lists.lrug.org [mailto:chat-bounces at lists.lrug.org] On Behalf Of Riccardo Tacconi
Sent: 21 March 2011 15:33
To: London Ruby Users Group
Subject: [LRUG] Ruby environment under Solaris

Hi,

I am not the sys admin but a developer having my apps in a Solaris environment without root privileges. Now we have a new server, but in the previous one the admin install multiruby and I was able to update the gems and even update Passenger and Mysql gem via sudo. In the new environment there is not multiruby and not the same sys admin and I would like to be able to manage my gems. To you have any suggestions. I know about rvm (I use it in my Mac) but it has issues on Solaris since it uses GNU commands. Do you have any simple solution, easy to configure that might work under Solaris?

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