The application itself would run without having passenger installed (unicorn, webrick, mongrel, thin, etc.), therefore passenger shouldn't really be in the Gemfile. Installing passenger as a gem separately would be the correct choice in this instance.
You should read RVM's guide to using Passenger with RVM.
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