Rails generate error: No such file or directory - getcwd

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When running rails generate on a new Rails 4.2 project, I keep getting the error:

~/.rbenv/versions/2.2.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/spring-1.3.0/lib/spring/configuration.rb:37:in `pwd': No such file or directory - getcwd (Errno::ENOENT)

How can I fix this?

Nick Urban · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-19T01:00:00.133

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The error is caused by an existing Rails Spring process running in the background.

You can easily solve this by running ps ax | grep spring to find the process id and then kill it.

There's an issue on the Rails GitHub about this: https://github.com/rails/spring/issues/247

edited Nov 19 '15 at 01:00

answered Feb 08 '15 at 03:10

Nick Urban

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Ftr running `spring stop` is an easy way to kill such processes – chhhris Jul 25 '15 at 06:02

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 28 '15 at 19:16

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This error may also occur if you are working in a directory which was deleted from some other terminal instance.

answered Jul 28 '15 at 19:16

Abhiram

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Can you please share what would b the solution in that case? – Mohammedsalim Shivani Sep 18 '19 at 13:19

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 27 '18 at 12:16

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If the directory (or some sub directory Rails will work with) you are working was renamed or removed, you'll have to run

cd .

and then you can run rails generate [...].

answered Jan 27 '18 at 12:16

vinibrsl

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 28 '17 at 11:10

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On my machine the same problem was arising because spring server stopped responding.

1:- To restart the spring server type in terminal

$: spring restart

2:- Try running the generator again.

answered Dec 28 '17 at 11:10

Nikhil Mohadikar

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Rails generate error: No such file or directory - getcwd

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