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After installing ruby-smart-proxy-dynflow-core, the foreman-proxy does not start up and throws the following error.

Oct 30 11:10:22 dummy1.test.com systemd[1]: Starting Foreman Proxy...
-- Subject: Unit foreman-proxy.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit foreman-proxy.service has begun starting up.
Oct 30 11:10:22 dummy1.test.com smart-proxy[22455]: /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/bundler_ext/output.rb:13:in `strict_err': Gem loading error: cannot load such file -- rest-client (RuntimeE
Oct 30 11:10:22 dummy1.test.com smart-proxy[22455]:         from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/bundler_ext/runtime.rb:46:in `rescue in block in system_require'
Oct 30 11:10:22 dummy1.test.com smart-proxy[22455]:         from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/bundler_ext/runtime.rb:39:in `block in system_require'
Oct 30 11:10:22 dummy1.test.com smart-proxy[22455]:         from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/bundler_ext/runtime.rb:37:in `each'
Oct 30 11:10:22 dummy1.test.com smart-proxy[22455]:         from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/bundler_ext/runtime.rb:37:in `system_require'
Oct 30 11:10:22 dummy1.test.com smart-proxy[22455]:         from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/bundler_ext.rb:19:in `block in system_require'
Oct 30 11:10:22 dummy1.test.com smart-proxy[22455]:         from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/bundler_ext.rb:14:in `each'
Oct 30 11:10:22 dummy1.test.com smart-proxy[22455]:         from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/bundler_ext.rb:14:in `system_require'
Oct 30 11:10:22 dummy1.test.com smart-proxy[22455]:         from /usr/share/foreman-proxy/lib/bundler_helper.rb:22:in `require_groups'
Oct 30 11:10:22 dummy1.test.com smart-proxy[22455]:         from /usr/share/foreman-proxy/lib/smart_proxy_main.rb:33:in `<top (required)>'
Oct 30 11:10:22 dummy1.test.com smart-proxy[22455]:         from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
Oct 30 11:10:22 dummy1.test.com smart-proxy[22455]:         from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
Oct 30 11:10:22 dummy1.test.com smart-proxy[22455]:         from /usr/share/foreman-proxy/bin/smart-proxy:5:in `<main>'
Oct 30 11:10:22 dummy1.test.com systemd[1]: foreman-proxy.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Oct 30 11:10:22 dummy1.test.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Foreman Proxy.

This started happening after installing ruby-smart-proxy-remote-execution-ssh. Following are the packages that were installed at the time.

dpkg -l | grep "ruby-foreman\|ruby-smart-proxy" 
ii  ruby-foreman-deface                   1.2.0-1                           all          Foreman Deface Plugin Dependency
ii  ruby-foreman-remote-execution         1.3.7-1                           all          Foreman Remote Execution Plugin
ii  ruby-foreman-remote-execution-core    1.0.5-1                           all          Foreman remote execution - core bits
ii  ruby-foreman-tasks                    0.9.6-1                           all          Tasks management engine for Foreman.
ii  ruby-foreman-tasks-core               0.1.4-1                           all          Foreman tasks - core bits
ii  ruby-foreman-templates                5.0.1-1                           all          Foreman Templates Plugin
ii  ruby-smart-proxy-dynflow              0.1.8-1                           all          Dynflow runtime for Foreman smart proxy
ii  ruby-smart-proxy-dynflow-core         0.1.6-1                           all          Dynflow runtime for Foreman smart proxy
ii  ruby-smart-proxy-remote-execution-ssh 0.1.5-1                           all          SSH remote execution provider for Foreman smart proxy

So to isolate the issue, I've trying starting up the foreman-proxy after removing each package.

• Removed ruby-smart-proxy-remote-execution-ssh, restarted foreman-proxy FAILED.
• Removed ruby-foreman-remote-execution-core, restarted foreman-proxy FAILED.
• Removed ruby-smart-proxy-dynflow, restarted foreman-proxy FAILED.
• Removed ruby-smart-proxy-dynflow-core, restarted foreman-proxy SUCCESS.

This narrows it down to ruby-smart-proxy-dynflow-core.

Workaround¶

I've installed the Gem manually by running {{gem install rest-client}} and then it works with the above packages installed.