RVM Bundle Install Missing Gem Error even though g

Question

I'm getting the following error even though I currently do have the Bundler gem installed (it appears when I run $gem list).

ERROR: Gem bundler is not installed, run `gem install bundler` first.

I'm using RVM and my $PATH is as follows:

/Users/cjstingl/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@rails3tutorial2ndEd/bin:
/Users/cjstingl/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global/bin:
/Users/cjstingl/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin:
/Users/cjstingl/.rvm/bin:
/Users/cjstingl/.bin:
/usr/local/sbin:
/usr/local/Cellar/php/5.3.6/bin:
/usr/local/share/python:
/usr/bin:
/bin:
/usr/sbin:
/sbin:
/usr/local/bin:
/usr/X11/bin

Also this is my gem env

RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.8.15
  - RUBY VERSION: 1.9.2 (2011-07-09 patchlevel 290) [x86_64-darwin11.2.0]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /Users/cjstingl/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@rails3tutorial2ndEd
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /Users/cjstingl/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/ruby
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /Users/cjstingl/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@rails3tutorial2ndEd/bin
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86_64-darwin-11
  - GEM PATHS:
     - /Users/cjstingl/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@rails3tutorial2ndEd
     - /Users/cjstingl/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => false
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
     - "gem" => "-n/usr/local/bin --no-ri --no-rdoc --no-user-install"
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - http://rubygems.org/

Also: Using the bundle -v command returns the same error

I've tried imploding RVM and reinstalling which doesn't seem to work. I'm stumped and any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

After having RVM installed on multiple machines with the same setup and having problems with RVM on one but not having these problems on another one, I decided to look for something better, less error prone.

I found and switched to rbenv, which is much more simplistic than RVM.

And as the README of rbenv states:

rbenv does…

• Let you change the global Ruby version on a per-user basis.
• Provide support for per-project Ruby versions.
• Allow you to override the Ruby version with an environment variable.

In contrast with rvm, rbenv does not…

• Need to be loaded into your shell. Instead, rbenv's shim approach works by adding a directory to your $PATH.
• Override shell commands like cd. That's dangerous and error-prone.
• Have a configuration file. There's nothing to configure except which version of Ruby you want to use.
• Install Ruby. You can build and install Ruby yourself, or use ruby-build to automate the process.
• Manage gemsets. Bundler is a better way to manage application dependencies. If you have projects that are not yet using Bundler you can install the rbenv-gemset plugin.
• Require changes to Ruby libraries for compatibility. The simplicity of rbenv means as long as it's in your $PATH, nothing else needs to know about it.
• Prompt you with warnings when you switch to a project. Instead of executing arbitrary code, rbenv reads just the version name from each project. There's nothing to "trust."

So if you ask me, dump RVM and switch to rbenv.

Answer 2

Ran into the same issue (where I kept on installing the bundler and rvm won't recognize it) on one of my laptops. I guessed I might have installed RVM wrong while I was still a rails noob. I tried the solution above but it didn't work for me. After messing around with it, I gave up and removed RVM and reinstall it. I figured it was due to some weird configuration issue deeply nested somewhere or . Here are the steps I took:

Remove RVM:

rvm implode

Install RVM again:

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails
rvm reload

Since I am working on an old rails project for work, I had to install ree-1.8.7-2012.02

rvm install ree-1.8.7-2012.02

Of course, Murphy's Law still applies. I ran into another issue where my laptop could not find a Non-broken C compiler even though Xcode is installed along with gcc. My final steps were going to https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer and install their package and reinstalling ree.

I hope this last resort solution helps someone. Good luck!

Answer 3

You know what, this is obviously your PATH variable's problem.

You should make sure that which bundle to be like /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/bundle instead of something like /usr/local/rvm/bin/bundle.

hint:

Did you just use PATH=some explicit list in your .zshrc file?

Then you should change that to PATH=$PATH:some list

Answer 4

I had this problem, too. I fixed my issue by specifying a gemset.

$ bundle install
ERROR: Gem bundler is not installed, run `gem install bundler` first.

$ rvm gemdir
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194

$ rvm gemset list

gemsets for ruby-1.9.3-p194 (found in /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194)
   global
   rails32

$ rvm gemset use rails32

Using ruby-1.9.3-p194 with gemset rails32

$ rails s

Could not find rake-10.0.4 in any of the sources

Run `bundle install` to install missing gems.

$ bundle install

Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/.......
{And voila! it worked!}

Answer 5

I ran into the same problem earlier today. The approach I used to resolve the issue was this:

1) Run

cap shell

on the same machine you would normally run cap deploy. Then execute

env | sort

This runs the command on the remote server. Copy and paste the output into a local text file, e.g. capenv.txt

2) SSH into the same remote server, and do the same command, namely env | sort. Save this locally as a text file, e.g. sshenv.txt

3) Diff the two files and see what is in sshenv.txt that is not in capenv.txt - this is most likely where your problem lies.

< ++CAP ++
< _=/bin/sh
---
> ++ SSH ++
> __array_start=0
14a15
> PS1=\[\e]2;tracker@charlotte\a\e[0;31m LIVE:\u@\h \w> \e[0m
18d18
< rvm_env_string=ruby-1.9.3-p194
21d20
< rvm_ruby_string=ruby-1.9.3-p194
27c26,28
< USER=tracker
\ No newline at end of file
---
> USER=tracker
> USES_BASHRC=bashrc
> _=/usr/bin/env

4) I immediately noticed that the shell interpreter was not set to bash. This can be fixed by adding

set :shell, '/usr/bin/bash'

to your deploy.rb file. This resolved my problem

Answer 6

Try this : https://rvm.io/integration/gnome-terminal/

it says about profiles run on startup, i am running ubuntu 12.10 and it work. Only thing you have to do is set "Run command as a login shell" in terminal profile preferences (tab title and command).

Hope it saves some time to someone.