typing ‘rails console’ doesn’t start?

In case anyone else hits this, my symptoms were:

I’d deployed my application with Capistrano 3

I cd’d into my application directory, and rails console didn’t work

Turned out I’d included the bin folder as a symlinked directory in my cap deploy, as follows:

set :linked_dirs, %w{log tmp/pids tmp/cache tmp/sockets vendor/bundle public/system}

… and my bin directory in ‘shared’ was empty.

Two fixes:

  • Ensure your linked bin directory has the correct contents (have a look inside your #{RAILS_ROOT}/bin directory for what this is, OR
  • Don’t symlink bin

I then re-deployed and it works.

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