Which gems path is correct?

tescher

Running Nginx+Passenger for my Rails app. Set up according to @sean 's instructions. It's crashing because a gem is missing. Bundler installs fine. It appears that this is the problem:

bundler puts the gems in apps/<app-name>/gems/gems
nginx.conf sets the GEM_PATH to apps/<app-name>/env

Why are we pointing GEM_PATH to env/? If that is correct, how to we get bunder to put stuff there?

sean

Not sure where/why you're seeing GEM_PATH and gems/gems, those do not appear in the Opalstack Passenger HOWTO.

gems/gems looks like an artifact from WF to me. Did you maybe copy something over from WF? Try searching your source, ie grep -R "gems/gems" ~/apps/appname and you might find some config that needs to be updated or cleared out.

/home/user/apps/appname/env is the GEM_HOME for the initial setup, ie that's where Rails gets installed so you can run rails new whatever to bootstrap an application.

When you run bundler you do that from within your project directory eg:

cd ~/apps/appname
export GEM_HOME=$PWD/env
export PATH=/opt/bin:$PWD/env/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/lib
cd myproject
bundle exec whatever

tescher

sean Yes, I think it's a holdover in my .bashrc from WF. Thanks.