You might want to consider adding your own gem library. I’ve got a few
sites
on DH and all of them have required various gems which aren’t installed. http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/RubyGems has a fairly good
explanation
of how to do it.
This is a good question. In the past, we’ve learned to be very mindful
of existing customers not locking their applications to specific
versions and have taken a “upgrade when asked” approach. Most of our
customers are savvy developers and know how to use the rake tasks to
include whatever version of Rails that they want in vendor/.
This is what we encourage customers that host with us at PLANET ARGON.
This is a good question. In the past, we’ve learned to be very mindful
of existing customers not locking their applications to specific
versions and have taken a “upgrade when asked” approach. Most of our
customers are savvy developers and know how to use the rake tasks to
include whatever version of Rails that they want in vendor/.
At Engine Y., each environment is entirely independent.
We had customers running 1.2, and we now have customers running
1.2.1.
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– Engine Y., Ruby on Rails Hosting
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