# Inching towards a working 1.1.6 app **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 15, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/inching-towards-a-working-1-1-6-app/137715 "2008-05-15T17:05:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amanda)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/inching-towards-a-working-1-1-6-app/137715/1 "2008-05-15T17:05:32Z")
I have an old app that I’m trying to get running on Dreamhost. I finally sorted out that it was built on rails 1.1.6 (did I mention that it is old? it is old.) and went about specifying 1.1.6 in environment.rb: RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION = ‘1.1.6’ unless defined? RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION And I pieced together that I need to be using 1.1.x gems, so I checked them out to vendor/rails: svn co [http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/branches/1-1-stable/activesupport](http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/branches/1-1-stable/activesupport) svn co [http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/branches/1-1-stable/activerecord](http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/branches/1-1-stable/activerecord) svn co [http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/branches/1-1-stable/actionmailer](http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/branches/1-1-stable/actionmailer) svn co [http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/branches/1-1-stable/release.rb](http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/branches/1-1-stable/release.rb) svn co [http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/branches/1-1-stable/railties](http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/branches/1-1-stable/railties) svn co [http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/branches/1-1-stable/actionpack](http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/branches/1-1-stable/actionpack) svn co [http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/branches/1-1-stable/actionwebservice](http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/branches/1-1-stable/actionwebservice) Now when I try to run script/server I get an error more like this (yeah, my app is in a directory called “frozeCSA” because I think what I’m doing is freezing the rails version): [0 chcsa@karnov frozeCSA]$ ./script/server =\> Rails application started on [http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000) =\> Ctrl-C to shutdown server; call with --help for options [2008-05-15 07:39:58] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1 [2008-05-15 07:39:58] INFO ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-linux] [2008-05-15 07:39:58] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=2456 port=3000 Killed That is better than it was, by a long shot, but it does launch on an odd IP address and then it gets killed before it is up. Where should I take this from here? PS, yes, these are the same puzzle: [http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse\_thread/thread/3e8564f6b0885a74/150378cdbba7048b](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/3e8564f6b0885a74/150378cdbba7048b) [http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse\_thread/thread/d6cd34bbc9d52bc7/03180960f81c452b](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/d6cd34bbc9d52bc7/03180960f81c452b) ---
**Author:** ![amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amanda)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/inching-towards-a-working-1-1-6-app/137715/2 "2008-05-15T20:27:54Z")
> RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION = ‘1.1.6’ unless defined? RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION > > And I pieced together that I need to be using 1.1.x gems, so I checked > them out to vendor/rails: > > svn co [http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/branches/1-1-stable/activesupport](http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/branches/1-1-stable/activesupport) If you just do ‘sudo gem install rails -v=1.1.6’, it will take care of all this bookyuck automatically, right? ---
**Author:** ![amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amanda)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/inching-towards-a-working-1-1-6-app/137715/3 "2008-05-19T14:26:42Z")
“sudo” being the heel of that achilles. Am I just doomed on Dreamhost? Argh. ---
**Author:** ![amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amanda)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/inching-towards-a-working-1-1-6-app/137715/4 "2008-05-19T23:46:16Z")
You can freeze particular versions of Rails: rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel\_1-1-6 On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Amanda [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > – Appreciated my help? Reccommend me on Working With Rails [http://workingwithrails.com/person/11030-ryan-bigg](http://workingwithrails.com/person/11030-ryan-bigg)