# Ruby 1.8.4 trouble

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-4-trouble/64950>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 9, 2006, 11:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-4-trouble/64950 "2006-02-09T11:14:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![mamatux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mamatux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mamatux)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 11:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-4-trouble/64950/1 "2006-02-09T11:14:51Z")

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Hi!

The ruby installation on my FreeBSD-6 box have been upgraded from  
1.8.2 to 1.8.4 by accident. And now all my rails have stopped working.

I can’t produce any cool debug info since I have none. running script/  
server just coredumps. Running the sites through apache isn’t an  
option since apache won’t start (get lots of these in my log: [Thu  
Feb 09 10:38:19 2006] [alert] FastCGI: read() from pipe failed (0)  
[Thu Feb 09 10:38:19 2006] [alert] FastCGI: the PM is shutting down,  
Apache seems to have disa  
ppeared - bye)

So what I’m missing right now are ideas on how to debug what the hell  
is going on/wrong here.  
Hope there are some brainy guys out there 🙂

Greetings,  
Gitte W.

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**Author:** ![mamatux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mamatux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mamatux)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 11:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-4-trouble/64950/2 "2006-02-09T11:50:20Z")

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I’d guess you need to reinstall your gems.

All of them.

–  
– Tom M.

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**Author:** ![mamatux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mamatux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mamatux)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-4-trouble/64950/3 "2006-02-09T22:16:31Z")

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On 09/02/2006, at 11.50, Tom M. wrote:

> I’d guess you need to reinstall your gems.
> 
> All of them.

Well I did ☹  
Still not working ☹

Greetings,  
Gitte W.

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**Author:** ![mamatux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mamatux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mamatux)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-4-trouble/64950/4 "2006-02-10T19:13:51Z")

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On Feb 9, 2006, at 4:16 PM, Gitte W. wrote:

> On 09/02/2006, at 11.50, Tom M. wrote:
> 
> > I’d guess you need to reinstall your gems.
> > 
> > All of them.
> 
> Well I did ☹  
> Still not working ☹

Doesn’t FreeBSD’s ports system allow you to rollback the update to  
1.8.4? I’m using DarwinPorts on Mac OS X, and it allows me to do  
something like this. Have a look at the options the ports system  
provides.

Good luck,  
Craig

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**Author:** ![mamatux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mamatux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mamatux)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-4-trouble/64950/5 "2006-02-10T20:33:14Z")

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Craig D. wrote:

> > Still not working ☹
> 
> Doesn’t FreeBSD’s ports system allow you to rollback the update to  
> 1.8.4? I’m using DarwinPorts on Mac OS X, and it allows me to do  
> something like this. Have a look at the options the ports system provides.

You can use sysutils/portdowngrade to downgrade Ruby 1.8.4 to 1.8.2.

BTW I have several FreeBSD 6-STABLE servers with Ruby 1.8.4 and many  
gems and I’m not having any problems.

Try do deinstall all Ruby-related stuff and install www/rubygem-rails.  
This will take care of the rest.

> Good luck,  
> Craig

Jonathan