There was an error while trying to load the gem 'uglifier'. (Bundler::GemRequireError)

Question

Why am i getting this error?

shibly@mybox:~/blog$ rails server
/home/shibly/.gem/ruby/2.2.4/gems/bundler-1.11.2/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:80:in `rescue in block (2 levels) in require': There was an error while trying to load the gem 'uglifier'. (Bundler::GemRequireError)
    from /home/shibly/.gem/ruby/2.2.4/gems/bundler-1.11.2/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:76:in `block (2 levels) in require'
    from /home/shibly/.gem/ruby/2.2.4/gems/bundler-1.11.2/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:72:in `each'
    from /home/shibly/.gem/ruby/2.2.4/gems/bundler-1.11.2/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:72:in `block in require'
    from /home/shibly/.gem/ruby/2.2.4/gems/bundler-1.11.2/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:61:in `each'
    from /home/shibly/.gem/ruby/2.2.4/gems/bundler-1.11.2/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:61:in `require'
    from /home/shibly/.gem/ruby/2.2.4/gems/bundler-1.11.2/lib/bundler.rb:99:in `require'
    from /home/shibly/blog/config/application.rb:7:in `<top (required)>'
    from /home/shibly/.gem/ruby/2.2.4/gems/railties-4.2.5/lib/rails/commands/commands_tasks.rb:78:in `require'
    from /home/shibly/.gem/ruby/2.2.4/gems/railties-4.2.5/lib/rails/commands/commands_tasks.rb:78:in `block in server'
    from /home/shibly/.gem/ruby/2.2.4/gems/railties-4.2.5/lib/rails/commands/commands_tasks.rb:75:in `tap'
    from /home/shibly/.gem/ruby/2.2.4/gems/railties-4.2.5/lib/rails/commands/commands_tasks.rb:75:in `server'
    from /home/shibly/.gem/ruby/2.2.4/gems/railties-4.2.5/lib/rails/commands/commands_tasks.rb:39:in `run_command!'
    from /home/shibly/.gem/ruby/2.2.4/gems/railties-4.2.5/lib/rails/commands.rb:17:in `<top (required)>'
    from bin/rails:9:in `require'
    from bin/rails:9:in `<main>

Answer 1

You should run following command to install NodeJS in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install nodejs

or run this for OSX

brew install nodejs

Uglifier is a JS wrapper and it needs a JS runtime running or JS interpreter. I would choose to install NodeJS.