Question

I have inherited a project and am not sure how to install the project’s ‘required’ gems?

For example,

rake gems:install
rake aborted!
no such file to load -- openssl

I realize that I need openssl, but which version?

Also, how do i determine which other gems i need to install without having to keep re-runing gems:install and getting newest version?

And this project does not have a Gemfile so I can’t use Bundler. 🙁

Answer 1

if there is a Gemfile, then you could run

bundle

inside your rails app folder and you should get everything required (you have to install bundler first with ‘gem install bundler’).
if not, you can look in the config/environment.rb which gems are included there.