http://synthesis.sbecker.net/articles/2006/03/29/rails-1-1-keep-dreaming en-us 40 by Scott Becker <p>Dreamhost has <a href="http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/03/28/new-rails/">apparently upgraded Ruby on Rails to 1.1 on their servers.</a> Too bad someone was asleep (har har) when they did it, because <a href="http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/03/28/new-rails/#comment-3575">it&#8217;s all broken.</a> Various gems didn&#8217;t get installed correctly and none of the rails commands work right. Hopefully this entry will soon look dated.</p> <p>As documented by others, there is <a href="http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/articles/2006/03/28/hosts-upgrade-to-1-1-doom">a way around this</a> &#8211; get the rails 1.0 gems and unpack them into /vendor/rails in your rails apps.</p> <p>Or if like me and you have multiple apps, make a centralized &#8220;resources&#8221; directory and put the rails gems in there, then symlink them to all of your apps vendor directories.</p> <div class="typocode"><pre><code class="typocode_default ">mkdir /home/username/resources svn export &quot;http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/tags/rel_1-0-0&quot; /home/username/resources/rails ln -s /home/username/resources/rails /home/username/rails_app/vendor/rails</code></pre></div> <p>It&#8217;s the reason this blog is up and running right now.</p> <p>It&#8217;s a good idea to always freeze gems on your apps if your running on a shared host, otherwise you&#8217;re vulnerable to breakage whenever they upgrade.</p> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:20:00 -0800 urn:uuid:eae5c7e5-13bf-4404-868d-57e3f9640400 sbecker http://synthesis.sbecker.net/articles/2006/03/29/rails-1-1-keep-dreaming Ruby on Rails Web Development