# Problem with upgrade gems version on shared host

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-upgrade-gems-version-on-shared-host/139695>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 6, 2008, 5:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-upgrade-gems-version-on-shared-host/139695 "2008-06-06T05:22:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Pooty\_Tang](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Pooty\_Tang](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pooty_Tang)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 5:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-upgrade-gems-version-on-shared-host/139695/1 "2008-06-06T05:22:21Z")

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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:in`activate’  
/usr/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:154:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:154:in`activate’  
/usr/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:155:in `activate' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:154:in`each’  
/usr/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:154:in `activate' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:155:in`activate’  
/usr/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:154:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:154:in`activate’  
/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:in`require’  
…/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:in`require’  
…/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:in`require’  
…/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:in`new\_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:in`require\_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:in`require\_dependency’  
…/config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb:110:in  
`prepare_application' ../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb:39:in`dispatch’  
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

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**Author:** ![Pooty\_Tang](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Pooty\_Tang](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pooty_Tang)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 5:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-upgrade-gems-version-on-shared-host/139695/2 "2008-06-10T05:33:15Z")

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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](http://www.godale.org/blog/2008/04/freezing-rubygems-on-shared-server.html)

-Dale