i'm using passenger with apache and it cannot find my locally installed gems

Question

if i use ./script/server my app runs fine but when i try to it it through passenger on apache it gives me

Missing the Rails 2.3.5 gem.

if i vendorize rails it seems that it finds it but then it fails for missing gems even though they are in vendor/gems.

ideally, i would not want to vendorize rails or gems for such a reason, but would expect that it picks up gems from my default home location ~/.gems

Answer 1

Sounds like it could be a permissions error or just the fact that passenger isn't running as the user where the gems are installed. Take a look at The user guide and user switching.

Answer 2

See my answer to a similar question "Passenger does not recognize locally installed gem, works with packed gems".