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Problem with Bundle Install - Rails on Ubuntu

  • Posted December 18, 2014

I have a problem with bundle install. I have a fresh droplet with Rails and Ubuntu. If I run as root:

bundle install

I get the following message and my application breaks, start getting “Bad Gateway” errors from Nginx:

Don't run Bundler as root. Bundler can ask for sudo if it is needed, and
installing your bundle as root will break this application for all non-root
users on this machine.

If I run bundle install as the rails user:

su rails
bundle install

then I get this error:

sh: 1: bundle: not found

What am I missing? I’ve scoured the internet and tried every solution I can find and can’t get it working quite right.

Thanks for your help,

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Andrew SB • December 19, 2014

The ruby installation on the Rail on Rails One-Click application is managed by RVM. If you run which bundle you can see that the binary is installed to:

# which bundle
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/bin/bundle

The rails user doesn’t have a login shell, so you’d need to manually source the file /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh to access the Ruby installation.

You can set a proper login shell for the rails user by running:

chsh -s /bin/bash rails

Then switch to the user with: su - rails From man su

  -, -l, --login
     Provide an environment similar to what the user would expect had the user logged in directly.

For more info on the One-Click application, check out:

Andrew SB • December 19, 2014

The ruby installation on the Rail on Rails One-Click application is managed by RVM. If you run which bundle you can see that the binary is installed to:

# which bundle
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/bin/bundle

The rails user doesn’t have a login shell, so you’d need to manually source the file /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh to access the Ruby installation.

You can set a proper login shell for the rails user by running:

chsh -s /bin/bash rails

Then switch to the user with: su - rails From man su

  -, -l, --login
     Provide an environment similar to what the user would expect had the user logged in directly.

For more info on the One-Click application, check out: