Common Mistakes when Deploying Ruby Apps

Incorrect binstubs - bad shebang line

A “binstub” is an abbreviation for “binary stub”. It consists in a small script generated automatically most of the time by bundler or other gems used in your project. Usually, they are placed into the bin/ directory of your application.

The shebang of a script like a binstub is its first line, usually starting with

#!/usr/bin/env <executable>

A sign that a binstub with an invalid shebang has been added in your project is if one of the following error is appearing when building or running your app:

"Your Ruby version is 2.5.1, but your Gemfile specified 2.6.6"
"Activating bundler (>= 0.a) failed ... Could not find 'bundler' (>= 0.a)"
You have already activated bundler 1.17.2, but your Gemfile requires bundler 1.17.3

Check the first line of the binstubs of your project, it might happen that the shebang was modified to another value to specify a ruby version

#!/usr/bin/env ruby2.5

This method is invalid for ruby scripts, it should always look like:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

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