cannot load such file -- bundler/setup (LoadError)

Question

I'm setting Rails 4 application with Ruby 2.0, but I'm getting "Web application could not be started" and get this trace:

cannot load such file -- bundler/setup (LoadError)
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:53:in `require'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:53:in `require'
  /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-4.0.19/lib/phusion_passenger/loader_shared_helpers.rb:212:in `run_load_path_setup_code'
  /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-4.0.19/helper-scripts/rack-preloader.rb:96:in `preload_app'
  /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-4.0.19/helper-scripts/rack-preloader.rb:150:in `<module:App>'
  /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-4.0.19/helper-scripts/rack-preloader.rb:29:in `<module:PhusionPassenger>'
  /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-4.0.19/helper-scripts/rack-preloader.rb:28:in `<main>'

My apache2.conf is:

LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-4.0.19/buildout/apache2/mod_passenger.so
   PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-4.0.19
   PassengerDefaultRuby /usr/local/bin/ruby

bundle -v is:

Bundler version 1.3.5

ruby -v is:

ruby 2.0.0p247 (2013-06-27 revision 41674) [x86_64-linux]

gem env is:

RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 2.1.5
  - RUBY VERSION: 2.0.0 (2013-06-27 patchlevel 247) [x86_64-linux]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/local/bin/ruby
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/bin
  - SPEC CACHE DIRECTORY: /root/.gem/specs
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86_64-linux
  - GEM PATHS:
     - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - https://rubygems.org/
  - SHELL PATH:
     - /root/.gems/bin
     - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/bin/
     - /usr/local/bin
     - /usr/bin
     - /bin
     - /usr/bin/X11
     - /usr/games
     - /usr/sbin
     - /sbin

echo $GEM_PATH is:

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8

Shouldn't GEM_PATH be /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0?

Inside the virtual host in apache2.conf I added:

SetEnv GEM_HOME /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8

And now it is working.

Is it the right way to fix this?

Answer 1

I had almost precisely the same error, and was able to completely fix it simply by running:

gem install bundler

It's possible your bundler installation is corrupt or missing - that's what happened in my case. Note that if the above fails you can try:

sudo gem install bundler

...but generally you can do it without sudo.