# Upgrade and Action Web Service **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 13, 2008, 10:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrade-and-action-web-service/137456 "2008-05-13T10:10:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **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 13, 2008, 10:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrade-and-action-web-service/137456/1 "2008-05-13T10:10:32Z")
I inherited a rails membership database that was basically working, though it came with no documentation. For context: the database manages members of a CSA (community supported agriculture) organization. So there is a lot specialized stuff like multiple waiting lists and volunteer hours to keep track of and invoices to generate. The whole thing was built by a volunteer who is long gone, or mostly gone. He definitely doesn’t have time to teach me rails. He turned over the database and I tried to get it going on Dreamhost, but … nope. First off, it won’t launch: ` [0 chcsa@karnov ourCSA]$ ./public/dispatch.fcgi /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:317:in activate': can't activate actionpack (= 1.13.6), already activated actionpack-2.0.2] (Gem::Exception) from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:335:in activate’ from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:334:in each' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:334:in activate’ from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 31:in require' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in require’ from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in new_constants_in' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in require’ from ./public/…/config/environment.rb:55 from public/dispatch.fcgi:21:in `require’ from public/dispatch.fcgi:21 ` Some searching around suggests to me that the problem is connected to (maybe?) a change in Rails versions. I’m looking at this: > **[钛刻专家——官网](https://www.texperts.com/2007/12/21/using-action-web-service-with-rails-20/)** > > 钛刻专家致力于打造一个全球专家在线服务平台，为机构和个人对接高水平行业专家，为机构提供更系统性的线下定制专家服务。 And thinking that I might be jumping to conclusions, though line 55 of environment.rb does say … 55 require ‘action\_web\_service’ Any caveats or suggestions? Is there a better way to approach this? ---
**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 13, 2008, 10:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrade-and-action-web-service/137456/2 "2008-05-13T10:26:37Z")
> Some searching around suggests to me that the problem is connected to > (maybe?) a change in Rails versions. I’m looking at this: > [钛刻专家——官网](http://www.texperts.com/2007/12/21/using-action-web-service-with-rails-20/) I wrote that. The basic problem is that actionwebservice was removed from rails 2. It sounds like the app starts off loading rails 2, then tries to load actionwebservice but can only find a 1.2.6 gem, which in turn depends on activesupport from rails 1.2.6 which can’t be loaded because the one from rails 2.0.2 is already loaded. If the app was previously running 1.2.6, then the easiest thing to do would be to get it running under 1.2.6 before you start worrying about migrating it to rails 2. (you can specify which gem version to load in environment.rb, assuming rails isn’t frozen into vendor/rails. Fred ---
**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 14, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrade-and-action-web-service/137456/3 "2008-05-14T01:25:26Z")
Thanks, Fred. I’m on Dreamhost. From my read of comments at: [http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2008/01/06/ruby-on-rails-upgraded-to-202/](http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2008/01/06/ruby-on-rails-upgraded-to-202/) It sounds like I could manually edit my environment.rb to force an older rails version, but I’m not sure how. This helpful page: [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/GemRails](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/GemRails) describes how to force individual gems versions. (In case you haven’t pieced it together, I have a related issue which is that I’m missing any call to Rails::Initializer in this app) Ignore this for now. Or don’t. I have a basic app, the output of “rails myapp” and I can see where it does have those lines: ./myapp/config/boot.rb: defined? Rails::Initializer ./myapp/config/boot.rb: Rails::Initializer.run(:set\_load\_path) ./myapp/config/environment.rb:Rails::Initializer.run do |config| On May 13, 4:25 am, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**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 14, 2008, 1:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrade-and-action-web-service/137456/4 "2008-05-14T01:28:58Z")
By the way, your explanation of this is crystal clear and I really appreciate your taking the time to get me even this far. Thanks! On May 13, 4:25 am, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**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 14, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrade-and-action-web-service/137456/5 "2008-05-14T14:15:08Z")
On 14 May 2008, at 00:25, Amanda wrote: > force individual gems versions. That page is a zillion years old. The way you do this these days is that environment.rb should have something like RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION = ‘2.0.2’ unless defined? RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION in it. Replace 2.0.2 with the desired version. > (In case you haven’t pieced it together, I have a related issue which > is that I’m missing any call to Rails::Initializer in this app) > > Ignore this for now. Or don’t. I have a basic app, the output of > “rails myapp” and I can see where it does have those lines: > > ./myapp/config/boot.rb: defined? Rails::Initializer > ./myapp/config/boot.rb: Rails::Initializer.run(:set\_load\_path) > ./myapp/config/environment.rb:Rails::Initializer.run do |config| Is the app you’re working on really really old? (ie from before Rails::Initializer & friends were created) Fred ---
**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 14, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrade-and-action-web-service/137456/6 "2008-05-14T14:28:59Z")
Really old? well, if January was a zillion years ago, I’d say this app is paloelithic, yes. On May 14, 8:14 am, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)