Clean install OSX 10.9.1 returns “undefined method `path2class'” when trying to install gems

Question

I just installed a clean Mavericks installation with Homebrew and RVM. Both brew doctor and rvm requirements return \"all good\", however, when I run <

Answer 1

For me this turned out to be a permissions issue. I fixed it by resetting my permissions on my ~/.rvm folder. Mac OS X 10.9.3.

First, find your system username:

ls -lA ~ | head

Produces:

-rw-r--r--@  1 nperry  staff   43012 Jul  1 13:25 .DS_Store
drwx------  63 nperry  staff    2142 Jul  1 13:40 .Trash
...

My username is nperry and my group is staff. Change the following lines to match your user and group.

sudo chown -R nperry:staff  ~/.rvm
sudo chmod -R ug+rw ~/.rvm

And no more errors.