diff --git a/src/ruby_supportlib/phusion_passenger/loader_shared_helpers.rb b/src/ruby_supportlib/phusion_passenger/loader_shared_helpers.rb
index 3281441c93..4e28678bad 100644
--- a/src/ruby_supportlib/phusion_passenger/loader_shared_helpers.rb
+++ b/src/ruby_supportlib/phusion_passenger/loader_shared_helpers.rb
@@ -210,6 +210,17 @@ def run_load_path_setup_code(options)
       #
       # The existence of Gemfile/gems.rb indicates whether (2) is true:
       elsif File.exist?('Gemfile') || File.exist?('gems.rb')
+        # Bundler 2.5.12+ throws a hissy fit if you don't have the
+        # version of bundler installed with which the Gemfile.lock was
+        # created. This causes extremely inscrutible error messages such
+        # as `/usr/bin/ruby doesn't exist`, so we cause RubyGems to raise
+        # an intelligible error here instead.
+        if File.exist?('Gemfile.lock')
+          lockfile_contents = File.read('Gemfile.lock').lines.map(&:strip)
+          index = lockfile_contents.index 'BUNDLED WITH'
+          bundler_version = lockfile_contents[index + 1] unless index.nil?
+          found = Gem::Specification.find_by_name('bundler', "= #{bundler_version}") unless bundler_version.nil?
+        end
         # In case of Rails 3+, config/boot.rb already calls Bundler.setup.
         # However older versions of Rails may not so loading boot.rb might
         # not be the correct thing to do. To be on the safe side we