Passenger missing gem

Question

I'm a newbie to Rails development and trying to run my new application on Hostmonster. I managed to make it work at the beginning. But now I tried to add more features and it's broken with the following error:

Missing these required gems: paperclip You're running: ruby 1.8.7.358 at /usr/bin/ruby rubygems 1.7.2 at /home1/kundkhu/ruby/gems/gems, /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems, /home1/examplec/ruby/gems Run rake gems:install to install the missing gems.

gem list --local

*** LOCAL GEMS ***
[...]
paperclip (2.7.0)
rack (1.1.6)
rails (2.3.11)
rake (0.8.7)

ls -l /home1/kundkhu/ruby/gems/gems

drwxr-xr-x 10 kundkhu kundkhu 4096 Jun  4 05:43 paperclip-2.7.0/
drwxr-xr-x  7 kundkhu kundkhu 4096 May 25 03:47 rack-1.1.6/
drwxr-xr-x 11 kundkhu kundkhu 4096 May 25 03:47 rails-2.3.11/
drwxr-xr-x  6 kundkhu kundkhu 4096 May 25 04:30 rake-0.8.7/

It looks like apache user has read permission to the folders.

rake gems:install runs without error and does nothing.

I've been looking at it for hours now and ran out of ideas. What am I missing??

Answer 1

rake gems:unpack was the solution. It copied the gem to the vendor folder where the Passenger found it.

Answer 2

Maybe your app is running as the wrong user.