Even when you're using bundler, it might be significant in which order your gems are listed in your Gemfile. This can happen when gems are running around calling require or require_dependency on other gems or application classes when loaded (don't do that!).
A known culprit of this is the (otherwise wonderful)
resource_controller
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gem, which requires ApplicationController when loaded. When your ApplicationController requires later-loaded gems when loaded, Rails will not boot.
Here is an example for an ApplicationController requiring Aegis::Controller from the
aegis
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gem:
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
include Aegis::Controller
end
In this case aegis must be listed before resource_controller in your Gemfile or Rails will not boot.
