Gem is an evil?

Hi all,

looks like “gem update” killed my application.
it was a very simplistic application that i carefully cooked under
ubuntu
after the selfprepared recipe:

rails+goldberg+activescaffold+capistrano+mongrel+apache2

not sure if a strange*) gem rails-1.2.3.6906 was an indirect killer,
but definitely as for now I am
motivated to use plugins more, more and more…

Comments to this bloggy post are welcome.

regards,

Valery.

*) try to google for “rails-1.2.3.6906” i got only TWO pages, both are
in Polish language

Valery wrote:

but definitely as for now I am
motivated to use plugins more, more and more…

Comments to this bloggy post are welcome.

regards,

Valery.

*) try to google for “rails-1.2.3.6906” i got only TWO pages, both are
in Polish language

Freeze your stuff, both Rails and gems. Then you won’t have to rely on
whatever versions the system has installed.

rake rails:freeze:gems

http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/gems/


Cheers,

  • Jacob A.

Thanks for your post, Jacob!

Oh, at least i know the application-wide name of the cure now :slight_smile:

hehe, I am quite happy that i am not the admin, who may fail to know all
rails apps being developed by developers working in his realm and
therefore
fail to freeze all things at once…

best regards

Valery

Hi Valery,

I detected recently that an update of rubygems to version 0.93 had
some problems.
After installing rubygems it was not possible to update any gem.
Only solution (I found):
Download rubygems 0.94 to disk, unpack it in you ruby folder and
execute the setup.rb

Best luck
Chris

On 6/19/07, Valery [email protected] wrote:

not sure if a strange*) gem rails-1.2.3.6906 was an indirect killer,
but definitely as for now I am
motivated to use plugins more, more and more…

That’s a beta rails version. As for why gem is now pulling from the
beta rails gem server, I don’t know. Those beta releases don’t go to
the official rubyforge servers.


Rick O.
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Hi Chris,

thanks for reply, i don’t have “rubygems” gem, just “rubygems-update”
of version 0.9.4

best regards

Valery

i think the reason is found. No idea why, but there are two
repositories among the gem sources that caused the
edge version to be installed:

http://gems.rubyonrails.com
http://gems.rubyonrails.org

i have deleted them, cleared the cache and now things go alright.

best regards

Valery