Unable to allocate memory for activeadmin in ubuntu 14.04 using DigitalOcean

Question

I encountered an error while executing bundle install using Ubuntu 14.04 with DigitalOcean

 Fetching source index from https://rubygems.org/ Fetching git://github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin.git Retrying git clone 'git://github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin.git' "/home/sachin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/cache/bundler/git/activeadmin-c24fcef949b2f1bbdf6b5a17650dcd86d73f2528" --bare --no-hardlinks --quiet due to error (2/3): Errno::ENOMEM Cannot allocate memory - git clone 'git://github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin.git' "/home/sachin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/cache/bundler/git/activeadmin-c24fcef949b2f1bbdf6b5a17650dcd86d73f2528" --bare --no-hardlinks --quiet Retrying git clone 'git://github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin.git' "/home/sachin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/cache/bundler/git/activeadmin-c24fcef949b2f1bbdf6b5a17650dcd86d73f2528" --bare --no-hardlinks --quiet due to error (3/3): Errno::ENOMEM Cannot allocate memory - git clone 'git://github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin.git' "/home/sachin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/cache/bundler/git/activeadmin-c24fcef949b2f1bbdf6b5a17650dcd86d73f2528" --bare --no-hardlinks --quiet Unfortunately, a fatal error has occurred. Please see the Bundler troubleshooting documentation at http://bit.ly/bundler-issues. Thanks! /home/sachin/.rvm/gems/ ruby-2.1.1@global /gems/bundler-1.7.12/lib/bundler/source/git/git_proxy.rb:114:in ``': Cannot allocate memory - git clone 'git://github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin.git' "/home/sachin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/cache/bundler/git/activeadmin-c24fcef949b2f1bbdf6b5a17650dcd86d73f2528" --bare --no-hardlinks --quiet (Errno::ENOMEM) 

Does anyone know of a solution?

Answer 1

I found a solution that I need some more memory to install the package. That's why I created a swap in a hard drive with 512 MB of memory, and it works great for me.

You can create a swap from here.