Every Rails developer has probably experienced the following error:
Could not find <gem> in any of the sources
Run `bundle install` to install missing gems.
This happens if you or someone else adds a gem to your Gemfile, or if a gem version is updated in Gemfile.lock,
and you forget to run bundle install before running a Rails command.
Here’s a simple function that handles this automatically, called bundle_install_wrapper(). It first tries to execute the command you pass to it.
However, if Bundler exits with status code 7 (GemNotFound), then it will run bundle install. Finally, it retries the original command.
bundle_install_wrapper() {
# Run command
eval "$@"
if [ $? = 7 ]; then
# If command crashes, try a bundle install
echo -e "\033[1;31m'$@' failed with exit code 7."
echo "This probably means that your system is missing gems defined in your Gemfile."
echo -e "Executing 'bundle install'...\033[0m"
bundle install # If bundle install was successful, try running command again.
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
echo "'bundle install' was successful. Retrying '$@'..."
eval "$@"
fi
fi
}
Drop the function in your ~/.bashrc, and add aliases for rails commands:
alias rs="bundle_install_wrapper rails server"
alias rc="bundle_install_wrapper rails console"
# etc.
If you want aliases that support any Rails application, you can use something like this:
# Run Rails commands on any version
rails_cmd(){
# Rails 3
if [ -e ./script/rails ]; then bundle_install_wrapper rails3_with_editor $@
# Rails <= 2
elif [ -e ./script/$1 ]; then bundle_install_wrapper ./script/$@
# Rails 4
elif [ -e ./config.ru ] && grep -q Rails config.ru; then bundle_install_wrapper rails $@
else echo "== I don't think this is a Rails application!"
fi
}
alias rs="rails_cmd server"
alias rsd="rails_cmd server -u"
alias rc="rails_cmd console"
alias rg="rails_cmd generate"
See the Ruby on Rails section in my .bashrc if you’re interested in more aliases, and please leave a comment if you have any tips to share.