I've got an API mode Rails 5 app that won't let me run rake routes
or rails s
. The error I get is:
$ rake routes
rake aborted!
LoadError: Could not load the 'listen' gem. Add `gem 'listen'` to the development group of your Gemfile
.../config/environment.rb:5:in `<top (required)>'
LoadError: cannot load such file -- listen
.../config/environment.rb:5:in `<top (required)>'
Tasks: TOP => routes => environment
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
I've verified that listen
is in the development group in my Gemfile:
group :development do
gem 'listen', '~> 3.1.5'
# Spring speeds up development by keeping your application running in the background. Read more: https://github.com/rails/spring
gem 'spring'
gem 'spring-watcher-listen', '~> 2.0.0'
end
And that it's in my Gemfile.lock:
$ cat Gemfile.lock | grep 'listen'
listen (3.1.5)
spring-watcher-listen (2.0.0)
listen (>= 2.7, < 4.0)
listen (~> 3.1.5)
spring-watcher-listen (~> 2.0.0)
I've bundle updated, and bundle installed, and verified that gem install listen
works. This was working earlier this week, but I'm not having luck going back through my commits.
$ ruby -v
ruby 2.2.3p173 (2015-08-18 revision 51636) [x86_64-darwin14]
I don't see it in vendor/cache
but I'm not sure what to make of that...
$ bundle package | grep 'listen'
Appreciate the help!
Update:
I can "fix" the problem by putting gem 'listen', '~> 3.1.5'
in the global Gemfile (and removing it from :development
). Then all the errors go away and everything works, but that seems wrong.
If you are on rails 5 and you are using the default config/environments/development.rb file it will have this line of code in there.
config.file_watcher = ActiveSupport::EventedFileUpdateChecker
This requires the gem listen. This threw me for a bit as I was doing a rails 4 upgrades to a rails 5
edit: Forgot to mention that if you comment that line of code out it will not need the listen gem anymore.