Gem Load Error is: undefined local variable or method `dotenv_files'

[heaven]

Getting this with 2.2.0, 2.1.2 does work.

runtime.rb:94:in `rescue in block (2 levels) in require': There was an error while trying to load the gem 'dotenv/rails-now'. (Bundler::GemRequireError)
Gem Load Error is: undefined local variable or method `dotenv_files' for #<Dotenv::Railtie:0x007fd3f94eac30>
Backtrace for gem load error is:
/Users/heaven/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1@crm/gems/dotenv-rails-2.2.0/lib/dotenv/rails.rb:38:in `load'
/Users/heaven/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1@crm/gems/dotenv-rails-2.2.0/lib/dotenv/rails.rb:51:in `load'

[n0nick]

FWIW a hacky way to avoid this error is to add the following to config/application.rb (before the Bundler.require call):

module Dotenv
  class Railtie < Rails::Railtie
    def dotenv_files; end
  end
end

Note that the method is empty but it later gets overridden and the gem's behavior remains unaffected. I was not able to pinpoint what exactly causes the issue with this version.

[softmonkeyjapan]

I'm having a similar issue on my staging server. The server is using the following:

Ruby 2.2.5
Rails 5.1.1
dotenv 2.2.1
unicorn 5.3.0

When starting my unicorn server, the log shows the following error message:

I, [2017-07-12T00:01:23.110852 #30507]  INFO -- : Refreshing Gem list
E, [2017-07-12T00:01:23.132283 #30495] ERROR -- : There was an error while trying to load the gem 'dotenv/rails-now'.
Gem Load Error is: couldn't find HOME environment -- expanding `~'
Backtrace for gem load error is:
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.5/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/commands.rb:28:in `expand_path'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.5/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/commands.rb:28:in `<module:Spring>'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.5/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/commands.rb:4:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.5/gems/dotenv-rails-2.2.1/lib/dotenv/rails.rb:20:in `require'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.5/gems/dotenv-rails-2.2.1/lib/dotenv/rails.rb:20:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.5/gems/dotenv-rails-2.2.1/lib/dotenv/rails-now.rb:9:in `require'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.5/gems/dotenv-rails-2.2.1/lib/dotenv/rails-now.rb:9:in `<top (required)>'

However, when I manually downgrade dotenv to version 2.1.x, everything is working as expected. The problem is that I cannot use dotenv 2.1.x as Rails 5.1 is not supported on that version.

Any idea of why this is happening?

Update

It seems that in my case, the break comes from this commit #246. Version 2.1.0 does work but not the above (from 2.1.1).

[stale]

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[n0nick]

Can we please reopen this? This bug was reported for version 2.2.1 which is the latest, so I think it's still relevant.

[jaydorsey]

I'm running into a similar error w/ 2.2.1 (latest), minus the rails-now part.

I'm deploying to an elastic beanstalk environment on AWS, and the error occurs when running a bundle exec command during deployment. There may be other issues at hand (permissions, context, AWS specific things, etc.) but I do seem to be able to reproduce this error (at least with my production code). Happy to provide more detail if necessary.

Things that didn't work:

• Setting the DISABLE_SPRING environment variable (spring isn't even bundled or on the system)
• Including an empty .env file
• Removing BUNDLE_WITHOUT

Things that do work:

• SSH'ing into the instance and running the command manually
• Downgrading to 2.1.1
• Prepending HOME=/var/app/ondeck to my bundle exec rake command (this is what I'm using to deploy)

Assuming it's got something to do with the scripts running as root and not having a HOME environment variable set (just like the error message says)

Environment:

Ruby 2.3.4
Rails 4.2.7.1
Bundler 1.15.4
Rake 12.1.0

Backtrace

rake aborted!
  Bundler::GemRequireError: There was an error while trying to load the gem 'dotenv-rails'.
  Gem Load Error is: couldn't find HOME environment -- expanding `~'
  Backtrace for gem load error is:
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/commands.rb:28:in `expand_path'
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/commands.rb:28:in `<module:Spring>'
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/commands.rb:4:in `<top (required)>'
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/dotenv-rails-2.2.1/lib/dotenv/rails.rb:20:in `require'
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/dotenv-rails-2.2.1/lib/dotenv/rails.rb:20:in `<top (required)>'
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/dotenv-rails-2.2.1/lib/dotenv-rails.rb:1:in `require'
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/dotenv-rails-2.2.1/lib/dotenv-rails.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:82:in `require'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:82:in `block (2 levels) in require'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:77:in `each'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:77:in `block in require'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:66:in `each'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:66:in `require'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/lib/bundler.rb:108:in `require'
  /var/app/ondeck/config/application.rb:15:in `<top (required)>'
  /var/app/ondeck/Rakefile:4:in `require'
  /var/app/ondeck/Rakefile:4:in `<top (required)>'
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-12.1.0/lib/rake/rake_module.rb:29:in `load'
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-12.1.0/lib/rake/rake_module.rb:29:in `load_rakefile'
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-12.1.0/lib/rake/application.rb:688:in `raw_load_rakefile'
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-12.1.0/lib/rake/application.rb:97:in `block in load_rakefile'
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-12.1.0/lib/rake/application.rb:179:in `standard_exception_handling'
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-12.1.0/lib/rake/application.rb:96:in `load_rakefile'
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-12.1.0/lib/rake/application.rb:80:in `block in run'
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-12.1.0/lib/rake/application.rb:179:in `standard_exception_handling'
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-12.1.0/lib/rake/application.rb:78:in `run'
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-12.1.0/exe/rake:27:in `<top (required)>'
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/bin/rake:23:in `load'
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/bin/rake:23:in `<top (required)>'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/lib/bundler/cli/exec.rb:74:in `load'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/lib/bundler/cli/exec.rb:74:in `kernel_load'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/lib/bundler/cli/exec.rb:27:in `run'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/lib/bundler/cli.rb:362:in `exec'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in `run'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in `invoke_command'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor.rb:387:in `dispatch'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/lib/bundler/cli.rb:22:in `dispatch'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/base.rb:466:in `start'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/lib/bundler/cli.rb:13:in `start'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/exe/bundle:30:in `block in <top (required)>'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/lib/bundler/friendly_errors.rb:121:in `with_friendly_errors'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.15.4/exe/bundle:22:in `<top (required)>'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/bin/bundle:23:in `load'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/bin/bundle:23:in `<main>'
  Bundler Error Backtrace:
  /var/app/ondeck/config/application.rb:15:in `<top (required)>'
  /var/app/ondeck/Rakefile:4:in `require'
  /var/app/ondeck/Rakefile:4:in `<top (required)>'
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-12.1.0/exe/rake:27:in `<top (required)>'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/bin/bundle:23:in `load'
  /opt/rubies/ruby-2.3.4/bin/bundle:23:in `<main>'
  ArgumentError: couldn't find HOME environment -- expanding `~'

It looks like it is related to the commit noted above, because by switching from loading watcher to commands, this line was introduced.

I'm chalking it up to an environment issue created by not having that HOME path set, because File.expand_path dies when HOME isn't set. watcher didn't have any File.expand_path calls.

Rescuing ArgumentError Bundler::GemRequireError might be a reasonable fix (in addition to LoadError, here

If @bkeepers is amenable I can fork, test, and do a PR if that resolves it.

[mokolabs]

I just ran into this bug, FWIW.

[heaven]

Just wanted to warn anyone about this hack:

module Dotenv
  class Railtie < Rails::Railtie
    def dotenv_files; end
  end
end

Don't use it as it will mess your environment. This hack breaks this rule:

dotenv-rails will load the following files, starting from the bottom. The first value set (or those already defined in the environment) take precedence:

And you will end up with your development keys in production.

To load it correctly we had to do the following to the application.rb:

module Dotenv
  class Railtie < Rails::Railtie
    def dotenv_files
      [
        root.join(".env.#{Rails.env}.local"),
        (root.join(".env.local") unless Rails.env.test?),
        root.join(".env.#{Rails.env}"),
        root.join(".env")
      ].compact
    end
  end
end

if defined?(Bundler)
  Bundler.require(:default, Rails.env)
end

Dotenv::Railtie.load

[zx1986]

Gem Load Error is: non-absolute home

jzshopping    | rake aborted!
jzshopping    | Bundler::GemRequireError: There was an error while trying to load the gem 'dotenv-rails'.
jzshopping    | Gem Load Error is: non-absolute home
jzshopping    | Backtrace for gem load error is:
jzshopping    | /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/commands.rb:28:in `expand_path'
jzshopping    | /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/commands.rb:28:in `<module:Spring>'
jzshopping    | /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/commands.rb:4:in `<top (required)>'
jzshopping    | /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/dotenv-rails-2.2.1/lib/dotenv/rails.rb:20:in `require'
jzshopping    | /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/dotenv-rails-2.2.1/lib/dotenv/rails.rb:20:in `<top (required)>'
jzshopping    | /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/dotenv-rails-2.2.1/lib/dotenv-rails.rb:1:in `require'
jzshopping    | /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/dotenv-rails-2.2.1/lib/dotenv-rails.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
jzshopping    | /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1@global/gems/bundler-1.12.5/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:86:in `require'
jzshopping    | /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1@global/gems/bundler-1.12.5/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:86:in `block (2 levels) in require'
jzshopping    | /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1@global/gems/bundler-1.12.5/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:81:in `each'
jzshopping    | /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1@global/gems/bundler-1.12.5/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:81:in `block in require'
jzshopping    | /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1@global/gems/bundler-1.12.5/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:70:in `each'
jzshopping    | /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1@global/gems/bundler-1.12.5/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:70:in `require'
jzshopping    | /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1@global/gems/bundler-1.12.5/lib/bundler.rb:102:in `require'
jzshopping    | /home/app/config/application.rb:8:in `<top (required)>'
jzshopping    | /home/app/Rakefile:4:in `require'
jzshopping    | /home/app/Rakefile:4:in `<top (required)>'

Ruby 2.3.1p112
Rails 4.2.3
rake, version 12.0.0
Bundler version 1.12.5