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Asked: 2026-06-16T00:43:01+00:00

I have recently switched from using Ubuntu system Ruby to using RVM. When I

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I have recently switched from using Ubuntu system Ruby to using RVM. When I run foreman start I get a not found error for whatever the command is in my Procfile.

My current Procfile is:

web: bundle exec unicorn -p $PORT -c ./unicorn.rb

So the error is:

/home/timmillwood/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/foreman-0.60.2/bin/foreman-runner: 41: exec: bundle: not found

which foreman returns

/home/timmillwood/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/bin/foreman

which bundle returns

/home/timmillwood/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/bin/bundle

The output from rvm info is:

ruby-1.9.3-p327:

  system:
    uname:       "Linux ubuntu 3.5.0-19-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 13 17:48:01 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux"
    system:      "ubuntu/12.10/x86_64"
    bash:        "/bin/bash => GNU bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)"
    zsh:         " => not installed"

  rvm:
    version:      "rvm 1.17.3 (stable) by Wayne E. Seguin <wayneeseguin@gmail.com>, Michal Papis <mpapis@gmail.com> [https://rvm.io/]"
    updated:      "1 hour 10 minutes 26 seconds ago"

  ruby:
    interpreter:  "ruby"
    version:      "1.9.3p327"
    date:         "2012-11-10"
    platform:     "x86_64-linux"
    patchlevel:   "2012-11-10 revision 37606"
    full_version: "ruby 1.9.3p327 (2012-11-10 revision 37606) [x86_64-linux]"

  homes:
    gem:          "/home/timmillwood/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327"
    ruby:         "/home/timmillwood/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p327"

  binaries:
    ruby:         "/home/timmillwood/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p327/bin/ruby"
    irb:          "/home/timmillwood/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p327/bin/irb"
    gem:          "/home/timmillwood/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p327/bin/gem"
    rake:         "/home/timmillwood/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327@global/bin/rake"

  environment:
    PATH:         "/home/timmillwood/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/bin:/home/timmillwood/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327@global/bin:/home/timmillwood/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p327/bin:/home/timmillwood/.rvm/bin:/usr/local/heroku/bin:/home/timmillwood/Support-Tools/bin:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games"
    GEM_HOME:     "/home/timmillwood/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327"
    GEM_PATH:     "/home/timmillwood/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327:/home/timmillwood/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327@global"
    MY_RUBY_HOME: "/home/timmillwood/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p327"
    IRBRC:        "/home/timmillwood/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p327/.irbrc"
    RUBYOPT:      ""
    gemset:       ""

I have also tried using rbenv with exactly the same issues. Foreman worked fine which I was using the system ruby, but I have purged these from Ubuntu and want to use RVM or rbenv so I can run Ruby 1.9 and 1.8.

It’s as if foreman can’t find the bundle binary. I can run bundle exec ruby web.rb or ruby web.rb to run a sinatra app, but that fails because it’s not loading my environment variables from .env like foreman does. I could use rack-env to load my .env file, then load my sinatra app using ruby web.rb but would rather use foreman.

Any ideas what’s wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Turns out I had PATH overridden in my .env file I generated via heroku config:pull. Deleting that line has solved the problem.

    Thanks all, nothing to see here.

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