[Rails] Re: Frustrations w/2.3.x and ruby 1.9.(2|3)

I feel your pain. I've been in the midst of similar tasks for a large
2.3.11 codebase. Here are a couple of links that might help:

http://gembundler.com/compatibility
http://blog.rubygems.org/2011/08/31/shaving-the-yaml-yak.html

I'd take it one gem at a time.

Good luck.
H
On Feb 10, 3:21 pm, Meech <meech...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow, what a clusterf(#$.     I am getting ready to write a new app in
> 3.x so I figured I would upgrade a legacy app to run on 1.9.x to ease
> deployment, eliminate proxying requests, gain performance, etc, etc.
>
> What a nightmare.
>
> RubyGems 1.8 throws up all over the screen complaining about it's own
> code.   The RubyGem poobah apparently thinks this is "a good thing"/
> won't fix.
> Certain versions of rubygems don't like certain versions of rails.
> Rack apparently made a change to set_cookies! which breaks rails
> (expiry)
> Bundle doesn't like using rails from git, because there are no
> gemspecs
> etc, etc, etc.
>
> I was hoping to use the latest version of ruby, rack, and rubygems
> with a 2.3.x app.   Starting to think it's impossible.   In order to
> use 1.9.3 I think (haven't actually tried this variant yet) I have to
> use a downgraded rubygems + 2-3-stable branch from github + stop using
> bundle.  Maybe.
>
> I liked the whole "convention over configuration" thing, and "it just
> works".   Not anymore, it looks like i've descended into a
> propellerhead's version of DLL hell.
>
> That is all.

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