# RedCloth gem/pluging not working in production mode

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redcloth-gem-pluging-not-working-in-production-mode/157727>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 14, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redcloth-gem-pluging-not-working-in-production-mode/157727 "2009-01-14T21:03:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redcloth-gem-pluging-not-working-in-production-mode/157727/1 "2009-01-14T21:03:40Z")

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Hi,

I installed RedCloth 4.1.1 using - gem install RedCloth - This has  
worked fine on my development (webbrick) machine.

I then did the same on my production machine which is using Apache and  
Passenger. However the plugin/gem appears not to be found. Do gems and  
plugins need to be handled differently in production mode or with  
Apache and Passenger? This is the first time that I am using a plugin.

Assistance would be most appreciated.

Paul Thompson

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**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redcloth-gem-pluging-not-working-in-production-mode/157727/2 "2009-01-14T22:46:50Z")

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I had a similar problem a while back and had to add the following to  
my environment.rb file:

config.gem “RedCloth”, :version =\> “\>= 4.1.1”, :source =\> “http://  
[code.whytheluckystiff.net](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net)”

This should go in the Rails::Initializers.run block.

Sheldon

On Jan 14, 3:02 pm, “Paul Jonathan T.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redcloth-gem-pluging-not-working-in-production-mode/157727/3 "2009-01-14T23:29:13Z")

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Hi Sheldon,

Tried what you advised. Am getting this message on starting Webrick (I  
thought I would test it here before trying in production)

=\> Booting WEBrick…  
/usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/requirement.rb:150:in `parse': Illformed requirement [{:source=>"http://code.whytheluckystiff.net", :version=>">= 4.1.1"}] (ArgumentError) from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/requirement.rb:75:in `initialize’

Thanks,

Paul Thompson

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Always good to test it in development before moving it to  
production. 🙂 Never seen that error myself. Let me copy and past what  
I have from the environment.rb file. I was typing that earlier post  
from memory:

config.gem “RedCloth”, :version =\> “\>= 4.1.1”, :source =\> “http://  
[code.whytheluckystiff.net](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net)”

This is on an app which is running rails 2.1, although it should work  
fine on 2.2+. It’s added just before the closing end on the  
Rails::Initializers.run block in config/environment.rb.

Sheldon F.  
[http://twitter.com/sheldonfinlay](http://twitter.com/sheldonfinlay)

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I’m having a similar problem. My Apache log shows the following error.  
Passenger doesn’t load completely so the rails log isn’t written to.

RedCloth 4.1.1 is also installed on the both the production and  
development environments and shows up in the ‘gem list’ call.

I don’t have problems in development (OS X, Apache, passenger) but  
production is messed. I’m on Ubuntu running Apache and Passenger. I  
have Rails 2.2 on both development and production environments.

#passenger error on restart  
Ruby on Rails application could not be started  
The application has exited during startup (i.e. during the evaluation  
of config/environment.rb). The error message may have been written to  
the web server’s log file. Please check the web server’s log file  
(i.e. not the (Rails) application’s log file) to find out why the  
application exited.

# Apache error log

You’re running:  
ruby 1.8.6.286 at /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20081215/bin/ruby  
rubygems 1.3.1 at /home/etandrib/.gem/ruby/1.8, /opt/ruby-  
enterprise-1.8.6-20081215/lib/ruby/gems/1.8

Run `rake gems:install` to install the missing gems.

# environment.rb

Rails::Initializer.run do |config|  
config.gem “RedCloth”, :version =\> “\>= 4.1.1”, :source =\> “http://  
[code.whytheluckystiff.net](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net)”  
end