# Any thoughts on building a project using an old version of rails? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 4, 2008, 7:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-thoughts-on-building-a-project-using-an-old-version-of-rails/139473 "2008-06-04T07:19:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alanterra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@alanterra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alanterra)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 7:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-thoughts-on-building-a-project-using-an-old-version-of-rails/139473/1 "2008-06-04T07:19:59Z")
I am trying to build some sample projects from the book “Ajax on Rails.” These projects are built against Rails 1.1.5, I am using Rails 2.0.2. The directions are to copy the sample code to your code folder, add all the default rails files, and then edit config/database.yml. So I installed the rails 1.1.5 gem, and then added the default files with # rails _1.1.5_ -s photo\_gallery But then script/server won’t work. It ran into two occurrences of “require\_gem” that seem to now need to be “require” in boot.rb. I changed those lines, and now I get # script/server /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/ 1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- rails (LoadError) from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/ usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require’ from ./script/…/config/boot.rb:38 from script/server:2:in `require’ from script/server:2 And, for what it is worth, I can’t seem to freeze rails into this project or even into a new project. When I try # rails _1.1.5_ -f test\_frozen it generates all the rails files, but then when it tries to freeze the code I get the error message /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.5/bin/rails:19:in `chdir': No such file or directory - -f (Errno::ENOENT) from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.5/bin/rails:19 from /usr/bin/rails:19:in `load’ from /usr/bin/rails:19 Is it just impossible to run an old version of rails? If the answer is yes–then perhaps there is more modern example code that will allow me to experiment with [script.aculo.us](http://script.aculo.us) and JavaScript? Pointers? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![alanterra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@alanterra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alanterra)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 8:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-thoughts-on-building-a-project-using-an-old-version-of-rails/139473/2 "2008-06-04T08:36:52Z")
On 4 Jun 2008, at 06:19, alanterra wrote: > # rails _1.1.5_ -s photo\_gallery > > But then script/server won’t work. It ran into two occurrences of > “require\_gem” that seem to now need to be “require” in boot.rb. I > changed those lines, and now I get The replacement for require\_gem is gem Fred ---
**Author:** ![alanterra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@alanterra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alanterra)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-thoughts-on-building-a-project-using-an-old-version-of-rails/139473/3 "2008-06-04T18:31:58Z")
Thanks Frederick, that was the help I needed. For anyone who stumbles across this post, a recipe for building “Example B: Photo Gallery” from “Ajax on Rails” by Scott R. is download and unzip the archives from the book copy the code from “Photo Archive” to a folder named “photo\_archive” (for convenience) install rails 1.2.5 you don’t have it (gem install rails -v=1.2.5) install the standard rails files in photo\_archive (rails _1.2.5_ photo\_archive -s) change “require\_gem” to “gem” in two places in config/boot.rb change RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION to ‘1.2.5’ in config/environment.rb configure the database and make an sql database if you need to run two rake tasks: rake rails:update; rake db:schema:load For whatever reason, it wouldn’t build against rails 1.1.5 which it says it wants Again, thanks A