Broken RubyGems configuration for some users under OS X 10.11

Originator:neocool2
Number:rdar://22979372 Date Originated:05-Oct-2015 11:26 PM
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:OS X Product Version:10.11
Classification:Serious Bug Reproducible:Sometimes
 
Summary:

I am a core team member of CocoaPods, which is distributed as a RubyGem. We are hearing some reports of our users that they’re unable to install any gems with binstubs successfully on OS X 10.11

$ sudo gem install cocoapods
Fetching: cocoapods-0.38.2.gem (100%)
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EPERM)
Operation not permitted - /usr/bin/pod

This seems to be caused by /Library/Ruby/Site/2.0.0/rubygems/defaults.rb existing on the affected systems. This doesn’t seem to exist on all systems, though, e.g. I am running OS X 10.11 and don’t have it.

Steps to Reproduce:

Unknown

Expected Results:

The system RubyGems should install their binstubs into /usr/local/bin

Actual Results:

The system RubyGems install their binstubs into /usr/bin — which is protected by System Integrity Protection and therefore fails

Regression:

This problem did not exist on earlier versions of OS X because SIP didn’t exist.

Notes:

Some relevant threads on our issue tracker:
https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/3736
https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/3692

Comments

Reply from Apple

We need more information to investigate this issue.

What is your RubyGems version? If you've installed a newer version then it won't install into /usr/local/bin unless you use -n /usr/local/bin The rubygems shipped with El Capitan will report $ gem env ... - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/local/bin ...

Please provide your response or results by updating your bug report.

By neocool2 at Oct. 7, 2015, 9:47 a.m. (reply...)

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