# Installing Rails 1.2.6 gem doesn't pull dependencies

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-rails-1-2-6-gem-doesnt-pull-dependencies/159355>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 3, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-rails-1-2-6-gem-doesnt-pull-dependencies/159355 "2009-02-03T19:50:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-rails-1-2-6-gem-doesnt-pull-dependencies/159355/1 "2009-02-03T19:50:27Z")

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I recently had a need to install the Rails 1.2.6 gem (for support  
reasons). When I did it, the dependencies were not installed  
automatically, so I had to find and get the correct versions of  
actinomailer, actionpack, etc.

Anybody seen this behavior before and have any insight into that?

Wes

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**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-rails-1-2-6-gem-doesnt-pull-dependencies/159355/2 "2009-02-03T20:14:15Z")

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On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 19:50 +0100, Wes G. wrote:

> I recently had a need to install the Rails 1.2.6 gem (for support  
> reasons). When I did it, the dependencies were not installed  
> automatically, so I had to find and get the correct versions of  
> actinomailer, actionpack, etc.
> 
> Anybody seen this behavior before and have any insight into that?

* * *

maybe this will help…

# gem list

\*\*\* LOCAL GEMS \*\*\*

actionmailer (1.3.6, 1.3.3)  
Service layer for easy email delivery and testing.

actionpack (1.13.6, 1.13.3)  
Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC.

actionwebservice (1.2.6, 1.2.3)  
Web service support for Action Pack.

activerecord (1.15.6, 1.15.3)  
Implements the ActiveRecord pattern for ORM.

activesupport (1.4.4, 1.4.2)  
Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework.

cached\_model (1.3.1)  
An ActiveRecord abstract model that caches records in memcached

cgi\_multipart\_eof\_fix (2.1)  
Fix an exploitable bug in CGI multipart parsing which affects Ruby  
\<= 1.8.5 when multipart boundary attribute contains a non-halting  
regular expression string.

chronic (0.2.3)  
A natural language date parser

color-tools (1.3.0)  
color-tools provides colour space definition and manpiulation as  
well as commonly named RGB colours.

daemons (1.0.6)  
A toolkit to create and control daemons in different ways

fastthread (1.0)  
Optimized replacement for thread.rb primitives

fcgi (0.8.7)  
FastCGI library for Ruby.

gem\_plugin (0.2.2)  
A plugin system based only on rubygems that uses dependencies only

hoe (1.5.1, 1.2.1)  
Hoe is a simple rake/rubygems helper for project Rakefiles

memcache-client (1.5.0)  
A Ruby memcached client

mongrel (1.0.1)  
A small fast HTTP library and server that runs Rails, Camping, Nitro  
and Iowa apps.

mongrel\_cluster (0.2.1)  
Mongrel plugin that provides commands and Capistrano tasks for  
managing multiple Mongrel processes.

packet (0.1.5)  
Packet, A Pure Ruby library for Event Driven Network Programming.

paginator (1.0.9)  
A generic paginator object for use in any Ruby program

pdf-writer (1.1.3)  
A pure Ruby PDF document creation library.

postgres-pr (0.4.0)  
A pure Ruby interface to the PostgreSQL (\>= 7.4) database

rails (1.2.6, 1.2.3)  
Web-application framework with template engine, control-flow layer,  
and ORM.

rake (0.8.1, 0.7.3)  
Ruby based make-like utility.

rmagick (1.15.7)  
RMagick is an interface between the Ruby programming language and  
the ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick image processing libraries.

rubyforge (0.4.5, 0.4.2)  
A script which automates a limited set of rubyforge operations

rubygems-update (0.9.4)  
RubyGems Update GEM

schema\_generator (1.0.3)  
The rails schema generator generates complete SQL schemas from a  
collection of rails migrations. It currently produces one schema  
file each for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

sources (0.0.1)  
This package provides download sources for remote gem installation

transaction-simple (1.4.0)  
Simple object transaction support for Ruby.

ZenTest (3.9.2)  
ZenTest provides 4 different tools and 1 library: zentest,  
unit\_diff, autotest, multiruby, and Test::Rails

Craig

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**Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-rails-1-2-6-gem-doesnt-pull-dependencies/159355/3 "2009-02-03T21:48:01Z")

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On Feb 3, 12:50 pm, Wes G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> I recently had a need to install the Rails 1.2.6 gem (for support  
> reasons). When I did it, the dependencies were not installed  
> automatically, so I had to find and get the correct versions of  
> actinomailer, actionpack, etc.
> 
> Anybody seen this behavior before and have any insight into that?
> 
> ## Wes
> 
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

What version of RubyGems are you using to do the install? If it’s  
before 1.2.1 (I think), you need to add the --include-dependencies  
switch to the gem install command.

Jeff  
[switchingtorails.com](http://switchingtorails.com)

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**Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 9:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-rails-1-2-6-gem-doesnt-pull-dependencies/159355/4 "2009-02-03T21:49:39Z")

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Jeff C. wrote:

> What version of RubyGems are you using to do the install? If it’s  
> before 1.2.1 (I think), you need to add the --include-dependencies  
> switch to the gem install command.
> 
> Jeff  
> [switchingtorails.com](http://switchingtorails.com)

1.3.1

That’s kind of why I’m asking. I know that 1.3.1 is supposed to handle  
dependencies automagically.

W