Gemfile error when running app.groovy with Spring Boot CLI

[kentoj]

In the "JAR support and Groovy support" section after installing the Spring Boot CLI with Homebrew on Mac OS X Mavericks I get a "no Gemfile present" error when running app.groovy with the "spring run app.groovy" command.

The error I get is:

groovy(master) > spring run app.groovy /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/configuration.rb:46:in find_project_root': Spring was unable to locate the root of your project. There was no Gemfile present in the current directory (/Users/kent/git/public/spring-projects/koj-gs-spring-boot/src/main/groovy) or any of the parent directories. (Spring::UnknownProject) from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/configuration.rb:48:infind_project_root' from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/configuration.rb:48:in find_project_root' from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/configuration.rb:48:infind_project_root' from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/configuration.rb:48:in find_project_root' from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/configuration.rb:48:infind_project_root' from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/configuration.rb:48:in find_project_root' from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/configuration.rb:48:infind_project_root' from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/configuration.rb:48:in find_project_root' from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/configuration.rb:48:infind_project_root' from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/configuration.rb:37:in project_root_path' from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/env.rb:27:inproject_root' from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/env.rb:41:in application_id' from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/env.rb:53:inpidfile_path' from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/env.rb:68:in server_running?' from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/client/run.rb:24:incall' from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/client/command.rb:7:in call' from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.3/lib/spring/client.rb:26:inrun' from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.3/bin/spring:48:in <top (required)>' from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/bin/spring:23:inload' from /Users/kent/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/bin/spring:23:in `

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[dsyer]

I do t think that's the Spring Boot CLI. Looks like you have a "spring" executable from a ruby gem in your PATH.

[gregturn]

Spring boot is Java and shell not Ruby.

[kentoj]

ok, thanks for the heads up dsyer. Do you know how I would access the spring CLI without uninstalling ruby?

[dsyer]

Find out where the CLI is installed and call it SPRING_HOME, then

$ export PATH=$SPRING_HOME/bin/:$PATH

You don't have to uninstall ruby to get rid of that gem though. Just "gem uninstall spring". Or switch to a clean ruby environment using rbenv (which I can see you are using).

[kentoj]

Thanks for the help @dsyer! Everything is working fine now.

[kalmanh]

spring is a gem used by Ruby on Rails framework as of version 4.1 (http://guides.rubyonrails.org/4_1_release_notes.html) and it just happens to also use an executable called 'spring'. It's pretty funny how the first commit to this spring gem is about 2 months after the first commit to spring-boot project

https://github.com/rails/spring/commit/a035f47a4f1c930cbc452eb87aeabaab409a0e64

Unfortunate coincidence? :8ball:

[dsyer]

Coincidence indeed. I guess Rails users have to alias "spring" to "springboot" or something.

[mhewedy]

As mentioned by @dsyer , here's steps to execute on your shell (on mac)

gem uninstall spring
cd /usr/local/bin
sudo ln -sf ../Cellar/springboot/*.RELEASE/bin/spring . 

[dsmithco]

Don't need to uninstall anything...

cd /usr/local/bin
sudo ln -sf ../Cellar/springboot/*.RELEASE/bin/spring ./springboot

Then just call springboot init or whatever

[ekyfauzi]

Thanks @dsmithco !

[TheChronicMonster]

@dsmithco Worked for me. Thank you.