skeptomai

Common Ruby Error

Have you ever seen the following?

"warning: Insecure world writable dir /tmp, mode 041777"

Here's the explanation from ruby-talk:

That means you have world writable directory in your load path ($PATH)
when you call external program (probably by using "system").  If you
know what you are doing, you can shut the warning up by

$VERBOSE=nil

as Ara told in [ruby-talk:211832].

I thought I'd jot it down here, because it comes up so often and freaks people out.