Uninstall Passenger Application in Mac OS X – Passenger removal steps from Mac OS X

Want to uninstall Passenger apps? Not able to find a way to uninstall Passenger completely from your Mac Machine? Is your Mac machine giving error after manually uninstalling Passenger application?

Uninstalling Passenger in mac is just a different approach than in Windows OS. Windows OS provides a option to uninstall application or application manufactures provides uninstaller with the application. But in Mac OS X there is nothing like uninstall utility. To uninstall the Passenger you simply need to drag & drop the Passenger application bundles to trash, that's it. STOP this is not the end there is more to properly uninstalling the Passenger from your machine.

Passenger Bundles – The Application Bundle

Drag & Drop leaves the associated files of Passenger application. Normally, it is thought that all the associated files of a application is saved in the one folder but it is not so. Passenger supported files & preference files are saved in other location than the Passenger Package folder. So you need to get all these files deleted manually. Deleting all the left overs of Passenger is not that easy, you need to find all the location where Passenger has saved the files. Some of the location where Passenger would have saved the files are ~/Library/Preferences/[] ~/Library/Application Support/[]

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Using Finder the remove the Passenger Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Passenger & all associated files

Start the Activity monitor to look for the processes running, if you find the Passenger application process running then quit it, make sure that Passenger processes is not running.
Start finder to look for the Passenger name.
Searching "Passenger" vs "Contents"
Delete all files and folders related to the Passenger app.
A reboot might be necessary to completely remove some apps.