Question

5, 6 months ago, I had, during a few weeks, to release an application under Heroku. So, I downloaded, installed Heroku Toolbelt and released my application: I didn’t have problems.

This morning, I started doing this application again and when I wanted to log in to Heroku with the command heroku login, I had exactly the following error: C:\Program Files (x86)\ruby-1.9.2\bin\ruby.exe: No such file or directory -- heroku (LoadError).

First, I reinstalled Heroku Toolbelt, but I still had the same problem, then I downloaded the zipped Heroku Toolbelt from Github, without success. So, I began looking on Google for a solution to this problem.

I put ruby-1.9.2 in C:\Program Files (x86)\Heroku\bin\ and changed the Ruby path in the heroku.bat file. I took advantage of it to put some ‘PAUSE’ in heroku.bat, to understand what is taking place, but found nothing of abnormal. In brief, I work on for 10 in the morning (French time) and absolutely found nothing.

This is why I came there to ask this question on Stackoverflow (one of the best forums for me). I hope somebody understood me and can help me. Thank you very much and sorry for my bad English.

Answer 1

The problem that I think you are having is that you moved the installation of Ruby from the top-level C:\ directory to an uncommon place where it will not be found by the system. When you install Ruby on Windows, it is advisable to have it in a place where it can always be accessed, whether you have administrative rights or not and in a folder that does not have any spaces or special characters in the name. When Ruby is installed correctly, it creates a folder called Ruby193 in my top-level directory: C:\Ruby193. In addition, your system Paths are modified through Windows Environment Variables and this is added to your path: C:\Ruby193\bin;. This allows you to run ruby followed by any command from any location through the command-line on the system. All that is left to do is install the heroku-toolbelt and things should be running smoothly.