Cannot start rails server using bash -c

[babajidemm]

Environment

Windows build number: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.778]
Your Distribution version: Ubuntu Release: 20.04
Whether the issue is on WSL 2 and/or WSL 1: Linux version 4.4.0-18362-Microsoft ([email protected]) (gcc version 5.4.0 (GCC) ) #476-Microsoft Fri Nov 01 16:53:00 PST 2019

Steps to reproduce

I have got a Rails project which I normally run inside the WSL. I would like to do the same thing from outside the WSL using bash -c (or wsl (?)). I ran this from both CMD and Powershell

bash -c "cd /mnt/c/<path/to/project>;bin/rails s

And I got this error.

/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require': cannot load such file -- bundler/setup (LoadError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
        from /mnt/c/<path/to/project>/config/boot.rb:5:in `<top (required)>'
        from bin/rails:3:in `require_relative'
        from bin/rails:3:in `<main>'

I also tried using bundler with
bash -c "cd /mnt/c/<path/to/project>;bundle exec bin/rails s"

I got

/bin/bash: bundle: command not found

Could you please help out here?

[therealkenc]

That is not a repro, but you can try (ref #5232):

C:\> wsl.exe /bin/bash -c 'cd /mnt/c/<path/to/project>; bundle exec bin/rails s'

If that doesn't work, have a look at the output of:

C:\> wsl.exe /bin/bash -c 'whereis bundle'

If that doesn't return /usr/bin/bundle as the first hit, then you are probably missing a sudo apt install ruby-bundler (and possibly else).

Also it is highly recommended to operate in /home not /mnt/c.