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Rails app on thin

I am trying to run a Rails app on thin.

I followed this tutorial http://www.funonrails.com/2010/03/nginx-and-thin-installation-and.html

After doing sudo service thin start

Following is the error in the thin log file

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.7/lib/bundler/source.rb:552:in load_spec_files': http://github.com/mislav/will_paginate.git (at rails3) is not checked out. Please runbundle install` (Bundler::GitError)

I have already run bundle install, and it has run successfully. A mongrel server on the same app runs fine.

What could be the problem.

Solution

  • Your problem is probably that you are running sudo service thin start. This now uses the root environment for ruby instead of your regular user. So in the root ruby environment bundler can't find the gems that you installed as your unprivileged user.

    To prove that this is the case try running ./script/server thin or rails server thin to verify this.