Rails: wkhtmltopdf executable in the wkhtmltopdf-binary-edge gem is being loaded

Question

I am working on a Rails application on Ubuntu 18.04.

I used the wkhtmltopdf-binary-edge, wkhtmltopdf, wkhtmltopdf-binary, wkhtmltopdf-heroku gems to convert HTML to PDF.

I defined it this way in my Gemfile:

source 'https://rubygems.org'
git_source(:github) { |repo| "https://github.com/#{repo}.git" }

ruby '2.5.0'
gem 'rails', '~> 5.2.1'
gem 'pg'
gem 'puma', '~> 3.11'
gem 'wicked_pdf'

group :development, :test do
  gem 'wkhtmltopdf-binary-edge'
end 

group :production do
  gem 'wkhtmltopdf-heroku'
  gem 'wkhtmltopdf-binary'
end 

Everything was working fine until recently when I started encountering this error whenever I try to run bundle install:

Error: The wkhtmltopdfexecutable in thewkhtmltopdf-binary-edge gem is being loaded, but it's also present in other gems (wkhtmltopdf-binary). If you meant to run the executable for another gem, make sure you use a project specific binstub (bundle binstub ). If you plan to use multiple conflicting executables, generate binstubs for them and disambiguate their names.

I have tried a couple of solutions, but none seems to work.

Answer 1

Here's how I solved:

It seemed like gems wkhtmltopdf-binary-edge and wkhtmltopdf-binary have conflicting executables.

I simply had to remove the wkhtmltopdf-binary-edge gem and re-ordered the Gemfile this way:

source 'https://rubygems.org'
git_source(:github) { |repo| "https://github.com/#{repo}.git" }

ruby '2.5.0'
gem 'rails', '~> 5.2.1'
gem 'pg'
gem 'puma', '~> 3.11'
gem 'wicked_pdf'
gem 'wkhtmltopdf-binary'


group :production do
  gem 'wkhtmltopdf-heroku'
end 

That's all.

I hope this helps