Ruby install failure

[abazlinton]

I think this might be more of a FYI.

A student has a username of joebloggs but a home directory /Users/joebloggs 1

Configuring Ruby ...
Downloading ruby-2.4.1.tar.bz2...
-> https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.4/ruby-2.4.1.tar.bz2
Installing ruby-2.4.1...
mkdir: /Users/joebloggs: Permission denied

BUILD FAILED (OS X 10.14 using ruby-build 20180822)

I think this explains mkdir: /Users/joebloggs: Permission denied

I think rbenv might be making assumptions about the location of the home directory...

My solution was -

brew install ruby
edit ~./zshrc to add export PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.5.3_1/bin:$PATH

Which is side-stepping the issue. You can apparently rename the home folder.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201548

Assuming this is actually the issue.

Side note: this issue only became apparent when trying to install pry-byebug as ruby was defaulting to the system version and failing to install for some reason.

[ajrussellaudio]

Hiya. This repo is public. You should probably remove the student's name from the issue.

[abazlinton]

@ajrussellaudio Good shout, thanks Alan 👍