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I'm attemping to clone and install a Ruby application from github. I have it cloned, and am trying to run the "bundle install" command, but it failed the first time because of an issue with Rake. I installed it manually using "gem install rake -v '10.1.1'". That command was sucessful, but, when I tried to run "bundle install" again, it failed with the same error.

The command line is copied below. I'm just starting out with Ruby. I have tried installing several applications and given up because of this same failure, actually, but just gave up figuring it wasn't my day.

I will state I am on a shared host, and apparently do not have sudo access as far as I can tell — is this the issue I am having and is there a way around it? I'm running these commands through SSH via Mac OS x Terminal on 10.9.2.

**SSH USERNAME*** [~]# git clone git@github.com:agoragames/bracket_tree.git
Cloning into 'bracket_tree'...
Enter passphrase for key '/home3/**username**/.ssh/id_rsa': 
remote: Reusing existing pack: 305, done.
remote: Total 305 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (305/305), 63.34 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (145/145), done.
**SSH USERNAME*** [~]# cd bracket_tree
**SSH USERNAME*** [~/bracket_tree]# bundle install
Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/.........
Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/..
Resolving dependencies...
sudo: unable to stat /etc/sudoers: No such file or directory
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin

Gem::Exception: Cannot load gem at [/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.9.3/cache/rake-10.1.1.gem] in /home3/**username**/bracket_tree
An error occurred while installing rake (10.1.1), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install rake -v '10.1.1'` succeeds before bundling.
**SSH USERNAME*** [~/bracket_tree]# gem install rake -v '10.1.1'
Successfully installed rake-10.1.1
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for rake-10.1.1...
Installing RDoc documentation for rake-10.1.1...
**SSH USERNAME*** [~/bracket_tree]# bundle install
Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/.........
Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/..
Resolving dependencies...
sudo: unable to stat /etc/sudoers: No such file or directory
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin

Gem::Exception: Cannot load gem at [/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.9.3/cache/rake-10.1.1.gem] in /home3/**username**/bracket_tree
An error occurred while installing rake (10.1.1), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install rake -v '10.1.1'` succeeds before bundling.
**SSH USERNAME*** [~/bracket_tree]#
Edited by kyleo92 because: left some stuff in
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It's trying to install gems into the system directories, which you don't have permission to modify. Try installing RVM (https://rvm.io) on your shared host account. That will set up your environment properly, to store everything in your home directory. Plus you'll get your choice of what version of ruby to run for each project.

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