Question

I am running a Debian squeeze server with these (backported) packages installed:

rails          2.3.5-1~bpo50+1
rails-ruby1.8  2.3.5-1~bpo50+1
rake           0.8.7-1~bpo50+1
libapache2-mod-passenger  2.2.11debian-1~bpo50+1

I have a Rails application I am trying to run in this environment, but when I load the page I get this error message:

Actual load error: Could not find
RubyGem rails (= 2.3.5) Missing the
Rails 2.3.5 gem. Please gem install
-v=2.3.5 rails, update your RAILS_GEM_VERSION setting in
config/environment.rb for the Rails
version you do have installed, or
comment out RAILS_GEM_VERSION to use
the latest version installed.

There is a constraint that I must use these “official” Rails and mod_passenger Debian packages, so installing Rails and mod_passenger the traditional way via gems is not a possibility.

Answer 1

This seems to work:

ln -s /usr/share/rails-ruby1.8/ /usr/share/myrailsproject/vendor/rails