Passenger Questions

I'm having trouble getting a rails app on dreamhost's passenger to see compiled libraries in my ~/opt/lib directory. i have to put them here

After finally resolving the unexpected token: import when using import vue from 'vue'; by using const vue =

I'm using amazon web service(ubuntu 12.04.1 lts) and using ruby 1.9.3 with rvm (single-user installed) i installed passenger with