bower-rails can't install packages anymore

Question

No idea why but a current already bower-rails installed project can't do bower:install anymore !

As it worked before, I already have packages installed locally. No idea wht is going one. NO changes as been made !

Tried to reinstall npm and bower, no changes !

rake bower:install
bower.js files generated
/usr/local/bin/bower install -p 
bower                        ENOTFOUND Package dsl-generated dependencies=./vendor/assets/bower.json not found
rake aborted!
Command failed with status (1): [/usr/local/bin/bower install -p ...]

Tasks: TOP => bower:install:production
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

I DO have a bower.json in my /vendor/assets/ directory.

npm -v 1.4.14

bower -v
1.3.11

Here is the full trace:

rake bower:install --trace
** Invoke bower:install (first_time)
** Execute bower:install
** Invoke bower:install:production (first_time)
** Execute bower:install:production
bower.js files generated
/usr/local/bin/bower install -p 
bower                        ENOTFOUND Package dsl-generated dependencies=./vendor/assets/bower.json not found
rake aborted!
Command failed with status (1): [/usr/local/bin/bower install -p ...]
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/file_utils.rb:54:in `block in create_shell_runner'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/file_utils.rb:45:in `call'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/file_utils.rb:45:in `sh'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/bower-rails-0.8.3/lib/tasks/bower.rake:36:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/bower-rails-0.8.3/lib/bower-rails/performer.rb:32:in `instance_exec'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/bower-rails-0.8.3/lib/bower-rails/performer.rb:32:in `block in perform'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/bower-rails-0.8.3/lib/bower-rails/performer.rb:57:in `block (2 levels) in dsl_perform_command'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/bower-rails-0.8.3/lib/bower-rails/performer.rb:56:in `chdir'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/bower-rails-0.8.3/lib/bower-rails/performer.rb:56:in `block in dsl_perform_command'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/bower-rails-0.8.3/lib/bower-rails/performer.rb:55:in `each'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/bower-rails-0.8.3/lib/bower-rails/performer.rb:55:in `dsl_perform_command'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/bower-rails-0.8.3/lib/bower-rails/performer.rb:31:in `perform'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/bower-rails-0.8.3/lib/bower-rails/performer.rb:10:in `perform'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/bower-rails-0.8.3/lib/tasks/bower.rake:35:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:240:in `call'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:240:in `block in execute'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `each'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `execute'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:179:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/2.0.0/monitor.rb:211:in `mon_synchronize'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:172:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:165:in `invoke'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/bower-rails-0.8.3/lib/tasks/bower.rake:11:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:240:in `call'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:240:in `block in execute'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `each'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `execute'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:179:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/2.0.0/monitor.rb:211:in `mon_synchronize'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:172:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:165:in `invoke'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/application.rb:150:in `invoke_task'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/application.rb:106:in `block (2 levels) in top_level'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/application.rb:106:in `each'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/application.rb:106:in `block in top_level'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/application.rb:115:in `run_with_threads'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/application.rb:100:in `top_level'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/application.rb:78:in `block in run'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/application.rb:176:in `standard_exception_handling'
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.3.2/lib/rake/application.rb:75:in `run'
./bin/rake:4:in `<main>'
Tasks: TOP => bower:install:production

Same when I try to rake bower:list

rake bower:list     
/usr/local/bin/bower list
bower check-new     Checking for new versions of the project dependencies..
bower ENOTFOUND     Package dsl-generated dependencies=./vendor/assets/bower.json not found
rake aborted!
Command failed with status (1): [/usr/local/bin/bower list...]

Tasks: TOP => bower:list
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

Answer 1

Maybe too late, but I'll leave it here, since I had similar issues using bower-rails, when running:

rake bower:install.

The solution I found on the web is running:

sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy

Hope it's helpful for someone else in the same situation.