I am following along in a rails course and am getting this below error telling me to install the tzinfo-data gem. However, the gem is installed. It’s in my gemfile. I can find the folder in my Ruby directory. Why is this still telling me to install tzinfo-data?
command line response and gemfile below:
C:UsersKevinLambDocumentssitesdemo_project>rails db:schema:dump
rails aborted!
TZInfo::DataSourceNotFound: tzinfo-data is not present. Please add gem 'tzinfo-data' to your Gemfile and run bundle install
C:/Users/KevinLamb/Documents/sites/demo_project/config/environment.rb:5:in `<main>'
Caused by:
TZInfo::DataSources::ZoneinfoDirectoryNotFound: None of the paths included in TZInfo::DataSources::ZoneinfoDataSource.search_path are valid zoneinfo directories.
C:/Users/KevinLamb/Documents/sites/demo_project/config/environment.rb:5:in `<main>'
Tasks: TOP => db:schema:dump => db:load_config => environment
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
Gemfile in the demo_project directory I am working in:
source "https://rubygems.org"
git_source(:github) { |repo| "https://github.com/#{repo}.git" }
ruby "3.1.1"
# Bundle edge Rails instead: gem "rails", github: "rails/rails", branch: "main"
gem "rails", "~> 7.0.2", ">= 7.0.2.3"
# The original asset pipeline for Rails [https://github.com/rails/sprockets-rails]
gem "sprockets-rails"
# Use mysql as the database for Active Record
gem "mysql2", "~> 0.5"
# Use the Puma web server [https://github.com/puma/puma]
gem "puma", "~> 5.0"
# Use JavaScript with ESM import maps [https://github.com/rails/importmap-rails]
gem "importmap-rails"
# Hotwire's SPA-like page accelerator [https://turbo.hotwired.dev]
gem "turbo-rails"
# Hotwire's modest JavaScript framework [https://stimulus.hotwired.dev]
gem "stimulus-rails"
# Build JSON APIs with ease [https://github.com/rails/jbuilder]
gem "jbuilder"
# Use Redis adapter to run Action Cable in production
# gem "redis", "~> 4.0"
# Use Kredis to get higher-level data types in Redis [https://github.com/rails/kredis]
# gem "kredis"
# Use Active Model has_secure_password [https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_model_basics.html#securepassword]
# gem "bcrypt", "~> 3.1.7"
# Windows does not include zoneinfo files, so bundle the tzinfo-data gem
gem "tzinfo-data", platforms: %i[ mingw mswin x64_mingw jruby ]
# Reduces boot times through caching; required in config/boot.rb
gem "bootsnap", require: false
# Use Sass to process CSS
# gem "sassc-rails"
# Use Active Storage variants [https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.html#transforming-images]
# gem "image_processing", "~> 1.2"
group :development, :test do
# See https://guides.rubyonrails.org/debugging_rails_applications.html#debugging-with-the-debug-gem
gem "debug", platforms: %i[ mri mingw x64_mingw ]
end
group :development do
# Use console on exceptions pages [https://github.com/rails/web-console]
gem "web-console"
# Add speed badges [https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler]
# gem "rack-mini-profiler"
# Speed up commands on slow machines / big apps [https://github.com/rails/spring]
# gem "spring"
end
group :test do
# Use system testing [https://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html#system-testing]
gem "capybara"
gem "selenium-webdriver"
gem "webdrivers"
end
Gems folder showing tzinfo-data:
screen shot
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Answers
Linking to this post for the answer. I tried a lot of different solutions but this is the only one that worked: tzinfo-data issue when starting new rails project
There’s a bug in Bundler that means there’s no valid platform value that will match 64-bit Ruby 3.1 on Windows.
With
gem "tzinfo-data", platforms: %i[ mingw mswin x64_mingw jruby ]
in yourGemfile
(or anyplatforms
option), Bundler will exclude tzinfo-data from the bundle and you’ll get theTZInfo::DataSourceNotFound
error.The solution is to remove the
platforms
option from the tzinfo-data line in the Gemfile and then runbundle install
: