Error: uninitialized constant Superenv::HOMEBREW_ENV_PATH

If you are getting the following error while installing from brew then this post might help you:

 

$ sudo brew install gradle

Error: uninitialized constant Superenv::HOMEBREW_ENV_PATH

Please report this bug:

    https://git.io/brew-troubleshooting

/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/extend/os/mac/extend/ENV/super.rb:6:in `bin'

/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/extend/ENV.rb:7:in `superenv?'

/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/extend/ENV.rb:12:in `activate_extensions!'

/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/build.rb:80:in `install'

/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/build.rb:179:in `<main>'

For resolving this issue follow these steps :

=> Make brew executable own by root

    $ sudo chown root /usr/local/bin/brew

=> Now update brew 

       $ sudo update brew

=> Now install what you were installing, in my case it was gradle 

     $ sudo brew install gradle

   ==> Downloading https://downloads.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.14.1-bin.zip

    ######################################################################## 100.0%

🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/gradle/2.14.1: 171 files, 47.4M, built in 47 seconds

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All the best!