# URGENT! can't activate actionpack (= 1.13.6, runtime) for \["actionwebservice-1.2.6"\], already activ

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 20, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/urgent-cant-activate-actionpack-1-13-6-runtime-for-actionwebservice-1-2-6-already-activ/188918 "2010-05-20T14:45:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/urgent-cant-activate-actionpack-1-13-6-runtime-for-actionwebservice-1-2-6-already-activ/188918/1 "2010-05-20T14:45:48Z")

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Hi guys,

I have added consumption of a couple of web services to my application  
and everything seemed to be going well. That is after yesterday, when  
I was asked to install whatever I had in a test server that runs in  
production mode (used also for demos) and when I tested the production  
environment in my PC the mongrel server gave me the above error.

I spent about 3 hours last night googling and seeing how I could fix  
the problem but nothing I tried worked. I saw old messages about it  
and one of them, from Fred Cheung, I believe, mentioned about freezing  
gems. I really would not like to do that unless I have to since I’ve  
never done it before and I don’t know the impact that would have in  
the rest of the applications we have.

Another post mentioned about getting rid of any actionpack gem higher  
than the one required by actionwebservice but I am afraid that doing  
so will screw up actionsupport and/or activerecord.

Below is the list of gems currently installed. I would appreciate any  
help as I am kind of stuck and need to get this thing done asap.  
Thanks in advance

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

actionmailer (2.3.5, 2.2.2)  
actionpack (2.3.5, 2.2.2, 1.13.6, 1.13.3)  
actionwebservice (1.2.6, 1.2.3)  
activerecord (2.3.5, 2.2.2, 1.15.6, 1.15.3)  
activerecord-oracle-adapter (1.0.0.9250)  
activerecord-oracle\_enhanced-adapter (1.2.3)  
activerecord-sqlserver-adapter (2.3.5)  
activeresource (2.3.5, 2.2.2)  
activesupport (2.3.5, 2.3.3, 2.2.2, 1.4.4, 1.4.2)  
archive-tar-minitar (0.5.2)  
authlogic (2.1.3)  
builder (2.1.2)  
calendar\_date\_select (1.15, 1.13)  
cgi\_multipart\_eof\_fix (2.5.0)  
color (1.4.0)  
cucumber (0.6.2)  
diff-lcs (1.1.2)  
fastthread (1.0.1)  
fxri (0.3.6)  
fxruby (1.6.6)  
gem\_plugin (0.2.3)  
hoe (1.8.2)  
hpricot (0.4)  
ibm\_db (1.1.1)  
json\_pure (1.2.0)  
linecache (0.43)  
log4r (1.0.5)  
mongrel (1.1.5)  
mongrel\_service (0.3.4)  
mysql (2.7.3)  
paginator (1.1.1)  
pdf-writer (1.1.8)  
polyglot (0.2.9)  
rack (1.0.1)  
railroad (0.5.0)  
rails (2.3.5, 2.2.2)  
rake (0.8.7, 0.8.3)  
rspec (1.3.0)  
ruby-debug-base (0.10.3, 0.10.2)  
ruby-debug-ide (0.4.5, 0.3.1)  
rubyforge (1.0.3, 1.0.2, 1.0.1)  
rubygems-update (1.3.6, 1.3.5, 1.3.1)  
sources (0.0.1)  
sqlite3-ruby (1.2.1)  
term-ansicolor (1.0.4)  
transaction-simple (1.4.0)  
treetop (1.4.3)  
win32-api (1.4.6)  
win32-clipboard (0.4.1)  
win32-dir (0.3.1)  
win32-eventlog (0.4.3)  
win32-file (0.5.3)  
win32-file-stat (1.2.3)  
win32-process (0.5.1)  
win32-sapi (0.1.3)  
win32-service (0.7.1, 0.5.2)  
win32-sound (0.4.0)  
win32console (1.2.0)  
windows-api (0.4.0)  
windows-pr (1.0.9, 0.6.2)

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**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/urgent-cant-activate-actionpack-1-13-6-runtime-for-actionwebservice-1-2-6-already-activ/188918/2 "2010-05-20T15:56:40Z")

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On May 20, 1:44 pm, pepe [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Another post mentioned about getting rid of any actionpack gem higher  
> than the one required by actionwebservice but I am afraid that doing  
> so will screw up actionsupport and/or activerecord.
> 
> Below is the list of gems currently installed. I would appreciate any  
> help as I am kind of stuck and need to get this thing done asap.  
> Thanks in advance

The core issue is that you have actionwebservice 1.2.6 which requires  
active support 1.2.6 but this rest of rails requires active support  
2.3.5 (requires in the sense that gem dependencies specify those  
versions).

You could look at [GitHub - datanoise/actionwebservice: This project is discontinued](http://github.com/datanoise/actionwebservice) - looks  
like it was updated to be inline with 2.3.2 and i’m pretty sure  
changes since 2.3.2 that might affect this have been minimal

Fred

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**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/urgent-cant-activate-actionpack-1-13-6-runtime-for-actionwebservice-1-2-6-already-activ/188918/3 "2010-05-20T16:07:13Z")

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Thanks Fred,

I tried to install the last version from datanoise by running “gem  
install/update actionwebservice” but that got me nowhere (still  
showing actionwebservice 1.2.6). Is that not the install command from  
datanoise’s gem?

If datanoise’s gem is not the same as the ‘regular’ actionwebservice,  
will I need to change my code or is datanoise the “evolution” of the  
original actionwebservice?

You mentioned 2.3.2. If I were able to install that gem version, would  
I have to work with rails 2.3.2 as well?

Thanks a lot.

On May 20, 9:55 am, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/urgent-cant-activate-actionpack-1-13-6-runtime-for-actionwebservice-1-2-6-already-activ/188918/4 "2010-05-20T16:39:25Z")

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On May 20, 3:05 pm, pepe [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Thanks Fred,
> 
> I tried to install the last version from datanoise by running “gem  
> install/update actionwebservice” but that got me nowhere (still  
> showing actionwebservice 1.2.6). Is that not the install command from  
> datanoise’s gem?
> 
> If datanoise’s gem is not the same as the ‘regular’ actionwebservice,  
> will I need to change my code or is datanoise the “evolution” of the  
> original actionwebservice?

as i understand it it’s just the ‘old’ actionwebservice updated to  
still work with recent versions of rails. You might have to install  
the gem by hand (get the source, build the gem with gem build  
blah.gemspec and then install the resulting .gem file)

> You mentioned 2.3.2. If I were able to install that gem version, would  
> I have to work with rails 2.3.2 as well?

To run with rails 2.3.5 you would at the very least update the gem to  
require that version of actionpack/activesupport etc. There are forks  
of that gem that purport to have done that

Fred

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**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/urgent-cant-activate-actionpack-1-13-6-runtime-for-actionwebservice-1-2-6-already-activ/188918/5 "2010-05-20T17:10:27Z")

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On May 20, 3:51 pm, pepe [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> > of that gem that purport to have done that
> 
> I am guessing that would be just replacing the value of the version  
> number required? I love Ruby but I’d rather not mess with code that is  
> not mine or I don’t understand.

At the very minimum. I don’t think rails would have changed much in  
the sort of ways that would affect this between 2.3.5 and 2.3.2. Some  
of the forks seem to have done that change already.

Fred

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**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/urgent-cant-activate-actionpack-1-13-6-runtime-for-actionwebservice-1-2-6-already-activ/188918/6 "2010-05-20T17:36:12Z")

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Thanks again Fred.

On May 20, 11:09 am, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/urgent-cant-activate-actionpack-1-13-6-runtime-for-actionwebservice-1-2-6-already-activ/188918/7 "2010-05-20T16:52:18Z")

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> as i understand it it’s just the ‘old’ actionwebservice updated to  
> still work with recent versions of rails. You might have to install  
> the gem by hand (get the source, build the gem with gem build  
> blah.gemspec and then install the resulting .gem file)

I’ll have to give it a try. Never built a gem from source before,  
though. Could be fun. I wish I had more time.

> To run with rails 2.3.5 you would at the very least update the gem to  
> require that version of actionpack/activesupport etc. There are forks  
> of that gem that purport to have done that

I am guessing that would be just replacing the value of the version  
number required? I love Ruby but I’d rather not mess with code that is  
not mine or I don’t understand. 😉

Thanks a lot Fred.