Problem with upgrade gems version on shared host

I have an app on a shared host that as of last night has stopped
working. The app had been using rails 1.2.1 out of /usr/lib/ruby/gems/
1.8/gems/rails-1.2.1 and everything was running fine.

Last night my host upgraded gems and that seems to be the source of
the problem. I tried just freezing rails but that isn’t helping.
Here is the production.log…

can’t activate rubyforge (>= 1.0.0), already activated
rubyforge-0.4.4]
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:139:in activate' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:155:inactivate’
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:154:in each' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:154:inactivate’
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:155:in activate' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:154:ineach’
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:154:in activate' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:155:inactivate’
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:154:in each' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:154:inactivate’
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in require' ../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:495:inrequire’
…/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/…/…/activesupport/lib/
active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in new_constants_in' ../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:495:inrequire’
…/config/…/app/controllers/application.rb:4
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
gem_original_require' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:inrequire’
…/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/…/…/activesupport/lib/
active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in require' ../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:342:innew_constants_in’
…/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/…/…/activesupport/lib/
active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in require' ../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:104:inrequire_or_load’
…/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/…/…/activesupport/lib/
active_support/dependencies.rb:60:in depend_on' ../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:442:inrequire_dependency’
…/config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb:110:in
prepare_application' ../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb:39:indispatch’
dispatch.cgi:11

I believe that I need to run on a local version of rubygems, but I’m
not sure how to do this, or if this is the correct approach. Any help
is appreciated.

Peter

Peter,
Not sure if this will help or not…but I had the reverse problem.
Here’s how I ‘froze’ gem:
http://www.godale.org/blog/2008/04/freezing-rubygems-on-shared-server.html

-Dale