Trying puma-dev service, it's not starting

I am trying to get puma-dev running and it comes with a nice systemctl service file to try. So I followed those instructions, and then tried to run my service, but it fails. There is nothing to really help in debugging why it fails though. Any hot tips on debugging services?

The service I placed in /lib/systemd/system as

[Unit]
After=network.target

[Service]
User=myuser
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/puma-dev -sysbind
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

The journalctl log shows this:

Jan 10 20:03:35 dave-macbookpro121 systemd[1]: Started puma-dev.service.
Jan 10 20:03:35 dave-macbookpro121 systemd[1]: puma-dev.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jan 10 20:03:35 dave-macbookpro121 systemd[1]: puma-dev.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 10 20:03:35 dave-macbookpro121 systemd[1]: puma-dev.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Jan 10 20:03:35 dave-macbookpro121 systemd[1]: puma-dev.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jan 10 20:03:35 dave-macbookpro121 systemd[1]: puma-dev.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 10 20:03:35 dave-macbookpro121 systemd[1]: Failed to start puma-dev.service.

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System:
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    clocksource: tsc available: acpi_pm
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Machine:
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  Mobo: Apple model: Mac-E43C1C25D4880AD6 v: MacBookPro12,1
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Battery:
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CPU:
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Network:
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Drives:
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Swap:
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Sensors:
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Info:
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  available: 15.52 GiB used: 5.19 GiB (33.4%) Init: systemd v: 255
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Garuda (2.6.22-1):
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  Last full system update: 2024-01-10 ↻
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  Relevant software:       snapper NetworkManager dracut
  Windows dual boot:       No/Undetected
  Failed units:            puma-dev.service

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So… is it solved or not?
Looks like it’s still failing to start, or is that just the error before fixing the user?

Failed units: puma-dev.service

And I guess you’re not installing by the (out-of-date) AUR package?
Not a problem, but I don’t think setting User=root in a system unit is necessary, that should be default.

it remains broken sadly… changing User to root ruined the service in that now it looks in directory /root/ for things, not my home directory.

So I do not know how to get the service to start properly. it just fails with no indication as to why.

What is the output when you run this command in the terminal?

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See the AUR package page, “Sources” section for example of the two (user and system) systemd units.
That package is sadly marked out-of-date since 2022 so I don’t know if it’s good to install that.
Then, see GitHub - puma/puma-dev: A tool to manage rack apps in development with puma

First, ensure that the puma gem is installed. It probably belongs in the Gemfile of the application(s) you’re trying to serve via puma-dev.
…
Logging

When puma-dev is installed as a user agent (the default mode), it will log output from itself and the apps to ~/Library/Logs/puma-dev.log. You can refer to there to find out if apps have started and look for errors.

note that the ~/Library path looks MacOS to me, perhaps the log file is elsewhere.

puma-dev.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
puma-dev.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

/usr/bin/puma-dev apparently exits with error code.
Try running it from command line (either with sudo or without -sysbind).

I decided to move the executable to my home directory, and then added the service to my ~/.config/systemd/user/ directory. Not sure if that was smart, but it seemed like the right thing to do.

So I did a systemctl --user enable puma-dev followed by systemctl --user start puma-dev and the service said it started!

So that was nice. But I had to really hack the example back. I had to remove the User= entry, and the target, it said multi-user.target was not a thing, so I changed that to default.target.

All that hacking and while it runs, it does not work yet. I know that is no one’s fault but mine, but wow. This package on Linux is painful! I hope to one day be able to work in Linux with the tools I used on MacOS… but these small things really present huge hurdles!

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Yeah, I see on github that it requires some further steps to run on Linux, also searching “linux” in the issues perhaps there’s something useful (there are a few).

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