Why is the PassengerRuby option ignored by PassengerPreStart?

[Dave James Miller]

In my Apache config I have:

LoadModule passenger_module /home/ruby/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/passenger-3.0.11/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /home/ruby/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/passenger-3.0.11
PassengerRuby /home/ruby/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.2-p290/ruby
PassengerPreStart http://www.example.com/
PassengerMinInstances 1

When I restart Apache the application is not started, and the error log says:

/usr/bin/env: ruby: No such file or directory

This is because there is no system-wide copy of Ruby installed - as you can see I am using RVM.

Looking through the archives I've seen a few people with the same problem, and the only suggestion I found was to fix the PATH to include Ruby... But since I specifically set the PassengerRuby option, shouldn't that be used to launch the helper script instead?

Thanks
Dave

[Hongli Lai]

It currently does not do that. Although the prestart script is written
in Ruby it doesn't care *which* Ruby, unlike the web apps which very
much do care which Ruby it is. For now you should just fix your PATH.

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