Rails 1.1 Follow Up

In the end DreamHost has uninstalled Rails 1.1 and all other dependencies. An odd move if you ask me since it was more work involved than fixing the upgrade. I think the main issue of contention was that Typo (a Ruby blogging program) doesn’t work with 1.1.

Before that I did manage to get all my sites working properly. There are three main ways to do this:

1. rake gem_freeze
2. Copy Rails 1.0 to your vendor directory:

   svn export http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/tags/rel_1-0-0 rails
   

   Or do it manually as laid out here.
3. Or insert the appropriate lines from the wiki to specify certain versions of Rails and its components. This requires your host to have older versions of the gems. A few caveats:
   • Make sure you have require ‘rubygems’
   • Make sure the dependencies come before any lines that need them, e.g.:

     ActiveRecord::Base.configurations = File.open("#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/database.yml") { |f| YAML::load(f) }
     

   • Comment out the default require lines for Rails

Also make sure you kill any old ruby processes so the changes can have an affect. To be honest I used a combination of 2 and 3, I’m fairly certain only one made a difference, and I know which one, but since the site is live and is now working, I’m very reluctant to change anything. As for future Rails hosts, my shortlist is:

1. OCS Solutions
2. Planet Aragon
3. and a distant third, TextDrive

I think I’ll go with OCS Solutions, because they seem very serious about Rails, they support lighttp, I couldn’t find any bad press about them and they’re cheap. DreamHost is good for testing Rails apps, but I definitely wouldn’t recommend them for client hosting.

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