Rails 1.1 Pain

DreamHost upgraded to Rails 1.1 last night, which broke my sites. Of course this was just a few hours after I announced them, making me look like a complete tit. Strictly speaking I should have locked my version of Rails to prevent this sort of thing happening, but a warning would have been nice. I doubt they would have upgraded to an incompatible version of PHP without mentioning it. Actually the problem is not so much the upgrade, but it was a partial upgrade. They forgot to upgrade activerecord, so no Rails sites work. So far it’s been over 10 hours without a word from their support team. All they need to do is roll out one gem across their servers.

I managed to get one site back up but the other is still down. DreamHost have always been a bit slow when it comes to Rails performance so I’m on the look out for a new host for my Rails sites. A quick search shows users on TextDrive (the official RoR host) went through a similar unannounced upgrade. If you know any solid Rails hosting company, let me know.

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