dreamhost, please upgrade rubygems

Posted: April 30th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: ruby, web | Tags: , , , | 2 Comments »

I’ve posted before about trying to use rails 3 with bundler and dreamhost. This is now not possible. The shared servers for dreamhost use rubygems 1.3.5. In order to use the current version of bundler you need rubygems 1.3.6.

If you are a dreamhost user please make sure to vote up the install rubygems 1.3.6 suggestion from the panel (panel.dreamhost.com) For a company that has been good about supporting ruby and rails this is something that needs to get fixed ASAP.

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2 Comments on “dreamhost, please upgrade rubygems”

  1. 1 justin said at 8:05 am on May 3rd, 2010:

    I voted for it. Using your other post on the issue as a guide I spent about 5 hours last week trying to get my rails3 app to deploy but failed. Oh well, good thing we’re still in development…

  2. 2 Aaron Gibralter said at 11:19 pm on May 4th, 2010:

    I was able to get bundler 0.9.25 working with Sinatra. I followed the instructions on http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Gems except that I installed rubygems 1.3.6 into my home directory. Then before the `require “rubygems”; require “bundler”` lines in my config.ru file I put the following:

    $LOAD_PATH.unshift(“/home/myusername/lib”)
    $LOAD_PATH.unshift(“/home/myusername/.gems/gems/bundler-0.9.25/lib”)

    And then it just worked after `touch …/tmp/restart.txt` — no more passenger errors.

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