Rails does not see installed gem in production.

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Everything works like a charm locally, but running in production (Dreamhost shared with Passenger if it matters), "These gems that this application depends on are missing \n -rmagick"

Rmagick is installed on dreamhost, but I have also copied the gem into the vendor directory, so it's not even found within it's local files. I'm using config.gem 'rmagick', which works locally, but I can't imagine how this could be a dreamhost issue since the gem sits inside vendor. On the other hand I can't imagine how this could be a production specific problem either, so as you can see I am lost :slight_smile:

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Everything works like a charm locally, but running in production (Dreamhost shared with Passenger if it matters), "These gems that this application depends on are missing \n -rmagick"

Rmagick is installed on dreamhost, but I have also copied the gem into the vendor directory, so it's not even found within it's local files. I'm using config.gem 'rmagick', which works locally, but I can't imagine how this could be a dreamhost issue since the gem sits inside vendor. On the other hand I can't imagine how this could be a production specific problem either, so as you can see I am lost :slight_smile:

Rmagick has native extensions right? Maybe you need...

rake gems:build # Build any native extensions for unpacked gems

?

-philip

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Rmagick has native extensions right? Maybe you need...

rake gems:build # Build any native extensions for unpacked gems

?

-philip

I didn't even consider that. I know there are separate windows and linux versions and I did vendorize the right one.

When I run "rake gems:build", it exits without a whisper. No errors but maybe not much else either. It didn't help though.

When I try gem install rmagick --install-dir=/home/<user>/gems it throws "Failed to build gem native extension".

Below that there's also

"Can't find Magick-config in /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games"

I have absolutely no idea what it's trying to do and why in that directory

Messy, but I don't think even this is the source of my problem. Presumably dreamhost's own rmagick install is functioning correctly, but when I clear it from vendor it still doesn't manage to find the native install.

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Wow, just got it going.

replaced config.gem 'rmagick' with

require 'rubygems' gem 'rmagick' require 'rmagick'

Old fashioned did the trick. Don't know why, don't care, I need to get some rest.

Thanks.