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Why do I get "foreman: command not found" only in a directory *with* a Procfile?

I am on CentOS. I've installed foreman with yum

In my home directory, with no Procfile I get:

$ foreman start
ERROR: Procfile does not exist.

However when I cd into a directory that has a Procfile, for example:

cd ~/supersender

Then the foreman command is unavailable, i.e. forem [tab][[tab] does not complete and I get 

$ foreman start
-bash: foreman: command not found
Solution

  • I had the same problem earlier. In one recent project folder, I was able to run 'foreman start', but in an older folder I got:

    $ foreman start
-bash: foreman: command not found

    I suppose adding 'foreman' to the PATH should work too, but the following commands work for me:

    $ sudo gem uninstall foreman
$ sudo gem install foreman
$ which foreman
/Users/liwen/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/bin/foreman

    I still do not know the discrepancy in seeing 'foreman' between the recent the the old folders earlier, but the above works for me.