Ruby on Rails: permission denied when using "rails generate controller welcome"

Question

I used Ruby on Rails on Red Hat server. When I trying to generate a controller file, I got this error:

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-22-128 testApp4]$ rails generate controller welcome
/home/ec2-user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/server.rb:22:in `initialize': Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - /tmp/spring/fea371aaf9d69cfa58bd12f69b3f1bf6.pid (Errno::EACCES)
from /home/ec2-user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/server.rb:22:in `open'
from /home/ec2-user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/server.rb:22:in `open'
from /home/ec2-user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/server.rb:22:in `initialize'
from /home/ec2-user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/server.rb:14:in `new'
from /home/ec2-user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/server.rb:14:in `boot'
from /home/ec2-user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/client/run.rb:43:in `block in boot_server'
from /home/ec2-user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/client/run.rb:41:in `fork'
from /home/ec2-user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/client/run.rb:41:in `boot_server'
from /home/ec2-user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/client/run.rb:24:in `call'
from /home/ec2-user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/client/command.rb:7:in `call'
from /home/ec2-user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/client/rails.rb:23:in `call'
from /home/ec2-user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/client/command.rb:7:in `call'
from /home/ec2-user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/client.rb:26:in `run'
from /home/ec2-user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/spring-1.1.3/bin/spring:48:in `<top (required)>'
from /home/ec2-user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/binstub.rb:11:in `load'
from /home/ec2-user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/binstub.rb:11:in `<top (required)>'
from /home/ec2-user/testApp4/bin/spring:16:in `require'
from /home/ec2-user/testApp4/bin/spring:16:in `<top (required)>'
from bin/rails:3:in `load'
from bin/rails:3:in `<main>'

Answer 1

I solved that problem by running

sudo chmod -R 1777 /tmp

hope this helps other people like me who would prefer not having to deactivate the spring gem

Answer 2

It needs ownership to write the re-write the pid for each server start.

I had to run it with my full local path & sudo

$ sudo chmod -R 777 /Users/MyName/Desktop/projects/my_project/tmp/