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I installed the gem according to the instructions at showoff.io, but when I try to run

show 8888

it doesn't work and I get

-bash: show: command not found

In their faq, they mention running 

gem contents showoff-io

if that happens, but I don't know how to read what I get:

Rakefile
Gemfile
lib/showoff/client.rb
lib/showoff/settings.rb
lib/showoff/api.rb
lib/showoff/helpers.rb
lib/showoff/version.rb
lib/showoff/setup.rb
lib/showoff/session.rb
lib/showoff.rb
bin/show

They say this:

This will list all of the files in the showoff-io gem. Look for the bin/show script. Either add that folder to your $PATH, or symlink the script into a location already on your $PATH. For example: 

sudo ln -s /var/ruby/gems/.../bin/show /usr/local/bin

But obviously copy&pasting that doesn't do anything because those are just example paths.

I'm sure this is very basic, but I'm a novice at this. What do I have to do?

Thanks!

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If you installed as your "normal" user account (didn't sudo), you most likely missed the warning message like this one:

WARNING:  Installing to ~/.gem since /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 and
          /usr/bin aren't both writable.
WARNING:  You don't have /Users/jclark/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin in your PATH,
          gem executables will not run.

Try this:

export PATH=$PATH:~/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin
show 3000

If that works, then simply do this to add it to your path every time you open a terminal.

echo "export PATH=$PATH:~/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin" >> ~/.bash_profile
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