ExecJS and could not find a JavaScript runtime

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I m trying to use the Mongoid   Devise Rails 3 1 template  Mongoid and Devise   and I keep getting an error stating ExecJS cannot find a JavaScript runtime   Fair enough when I didn t have any installed  but I ve tried installing Node js  Mustang and the Ruby Racer  but nothing is working    I could not find a JavaScript runtime  See sstephenson ExecJS  GitHub  for a list of available runtimes  ExecJS  RuntimeUnavailable    What do I need to do to get this working

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Ubuntu Users  I m on Ubuntu 11 04 and had similar issues  Installing Node js fixed it   As of Ubuntu 13 04 x64 you only need to run   sudo apt-get install nodejs   This will solve the problem     CentOS RedHat Users  sudo yum install nodejs

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I had this same error but only on my staging server not my production environment   nodejs was already installed on both environments   By typing   which node   I found out that the node command was located in   usr bin node on production  but   usr local bin node in staging   After creating a symlink on staging i e     sudo ln -s  usr local bin node  usr bin node   the application then worked in staging    No muss no fuss

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Attempting to debug in RubyMine using Ubuntu 18 04  Ruby 2 6    Rails 5   amp  RubyMine 2019 1 1  I ran into the same issue   To resolve the issue  I uncommented the mini racer line from my Gemfile and then ran bundle      See https   github com rails execjs readme for more supported runtimes   gem  mini racer   platforms   ruby   Change to      See https   github com rails execjs readme for more supported runtimes gem  mini racer   platforms   ruby

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Just add ExecJS and the Ruby Racer in your gem file and run bundle install after                    gem  execjs   gem  therubyracer    Everything should be fine after

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For amazon linux AMI    sudo yum install nodejs npm --enablerepo epel

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Don t Use RubyRacer as it is bad on memory  Installing Node js as suggested by some people here is a better idea   This list of available runtimes that can be used by ExecJs Library also documents the use of Node js  https   github com sstephenson execjs  So  Node js is not an overkill  and much better solution than using the RubyRacer

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Add following gems in your gem file  gem  therubyracer  gem  execjs    and run  bundle install   you are done

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I had a similar problem  my Rails 3 1 app worked fine on Windows but got the same error as the OP when running on Linux   The fix that worked for me on both platforms was to add the following to my Gemfile  gem  therubyracer    platforms   gt   ruby  The trick is knowing that  platforms   gt   ruby actually means only use this gem with  quot C Ruby  MRI  or Rubinius  but NOT Windows  quot  Other possible values for  platforms are described in the bundler man page  FYI  Windows has a builtin JavaScript engine which execjs can locate   On Linux there is not a builtin although there are several available that one can install   therubyracer is one of them   Others are listed in the execjs README md

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I used to add the Ruby Racer to the Gem file to fix it  But hey  Node js works

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In your Gem file  write  gem  execjs  gem  therubyracer    and then run  bundle install   Everything works fine for me

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Adding the following gem to my Gemfile solved the issue   gem  therubyracer    Then bundle your new dependencies     bundle install

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FYI  this fixed the problem for me    it s a pathing problem  http   forums freebsd org showthread php t 35539

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An alternative way is to just bundle without the gem group that contains the things you don t have   So do   bundle install --without assets   you don t have to modify the Gemfile at all  providing of course you are not doing asset chain stuff - which usually applies in non-development environments   Bundle will remember your  --without  setting in the  bundle config file

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I installed node via nvm and encountered this issue when deploying with Capistrano  Capistrano didn t load nvm automatically because it runs non-interactively   To fix  simply move the lines that nvm adds to your    bashrc up to the top  The file will then look something like this   export NVM DIR   HOME  nvm    -s   NVM DIR nvm sh     amp  amp       NVM DIR nvm sh     This loads nvm   -s   NVM DIR bash completion     amp  amp       NVM DIR bash completion     This loads nvm bash completion    If not running interactively  don t do anything case  - in      i               return   esac

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I started getting this problem when I started using rbenv with Ruby 1 9 3 where as my system ruby is 1 8 7  The gem is installed in both places but for some reason the rails script didn t pick it up  But adding the  execjs  and  therubyracer  to the Gemfile did the trick

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In your gem file Uncomment this line   19   gem  therubyracer   platforms   ruby  And run bundle install  You are ready to work

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