# Strange Passenger behavior on OS X **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 20, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-passenger-behavior-on-os-x/172379 "2009-07-20T19:22:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rykkers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rykkers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rykkers)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-passenger-behavior-on-os-x/172379/1 "2009-07-20T19:22:49Z")
I’ve just spent several days intermittently trying to get a development rails app working again under passenger on OS X. I still don’t understand what happened. This app was working fine until a few days ago. All of a sudden it would fail to initialize. The backtrace in the apache error log showed that a vendored gem (aws-s3) was not finding something it needed from a non-vendored gem (mime-types). The same app would come up find under script/server After much head-scratching I finally noticed that passenger (which had been started using a darwinports installed ruby in /opt/local) and which had the darwinports paths set in the apache configuration, was spawning daemons using /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Ruby instead of /opt/local/bin/ruby, and the system installation of ruby was looking for gems in the wrong place, among other things. I can’t think of anything which I’d done to cause this. I tried reinstalling the passenger apache module and restarting apache, but no joy. I then updated the passenger gem to the latest version, reinstalled the passenger apache module, and restarted apache, same thing. Then I rebooted the MacBook and it seems to be working again, but since I don’t know what caused this the first time, I’m not sure it won’t come back. Does anyone have any insight about this? – Rick DeNatale Blog: [http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/](http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/) Twitter: [http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale](http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale) WWR: [http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale](http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale) LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale](http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale) ---
**Author:** ![rykkers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rykkers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rykkers)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 11:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-passenger-behavior-on-os-x/172379/2 "2009-07-20T23:26:01Z")
Hi Rick, On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Rick DeNatale[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I’ve just spent several days intermittently trying to get a > development rails app working again under passenger on OS X. > > After much head-scratching I finally noticed that passenger (which had > been started using a darwinports installed ruby in /opt/local) and > which had the darwinports paths set in the apache configuration, was > spawning daemons using /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Ruby > instead of /opt/local/bin/ruby, and the system installation of ruby > was looking for gems in the wrong place, among other things. What’s the value of PassengerRuby in your Apache config? ~ j. ---
**Author:** ![rykkers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rykkers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rykkers)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-passenger-behavior-on-os-x/172379/3 "2009-07-21T00:23:53Z")
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:25 PM, John B.[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > spawning daemons using /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Ruby > > instead of /opt/local/bin/ruby, and the system installation of ruby > > was looking for gems in the wrong place, among other things. > > What’s the value of PassengerRuby in your Apache config? Well, as I implied, I think it was and is /opt/local/bin/ruby ## For some reason it seemed to be ignored. Rick DeNatale Blog: [http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/](http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/) Twitter: [http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale](http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale) WWR: [http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale](http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale) LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale](http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale) ---
**Author:** ![rykkers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rykkers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rykkers)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-passenger-behavior-on-os-x/172379/4 "2009-07-21T00:25:03Z")
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Rick DeNatale[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Well, as I implied, I think it was and is /opt/local/bin/ruby And just to be perfectly clear that was supposed to be “as I implied, I think,…” the missing comma changes the sense of the sentence. It definitely WAS and IS /opt/local/bin/ruby and never changed. – Rick DeNatale Blog: [http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/](http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/) Twitter: [http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale](http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale) WWR: [http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale](http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale) LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale](http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale)