Ruby on Rails 1.2.3
Posted (May 15th, 2007 at 2:07 pm PST) by TerriIt’s that time again! Right now I’m compiling a new version of Ruby on Rails for our servers. I will be testing and slowly rolling these out this week and next week. The upgrade should be completed by the end of next week at the latest. I will be carefully testing the upgrade to be sure it does not impact customers negatively, but I highly recommend that everyone freezes their rails - especially if you are running a Typo blog!
To freeze your rails applications, ssh into the directory that holds the application and run rake freeze_gems. If you ever need to unfreeze the application, run rake unfreeze_rails.
24 Responses to “Ruby on Rails 1.2.3”
Since when did DH have rails?
that’s great new!
Also I would love to have the new wordpress 2.2 installer as a one-click-gadget :))
*great news - damn my spelling.
Update to WORDPRESS 2.2 ??????
I’m crazy to start to use :p
Any of setting up a server for Rails-heads that employs a bunch of Mongrel instances behind an Apache (or some other SSL-capable) reverse proxy?
Why do we get “fun” reports about these tweaky add-ons affecting few people, when the recent update of PHP to 4.4.7 which has just been rolled out and has introduced a critical bug in the way POST vars are sent from the browser to our PHP code (getting double-urlencoded incorrectly) is NOT mentioned, and is simply dumped silently on us?
If you have noticed problems in your PHP pages with URL strings containing urlencoded POST parameters like ?myvar=%22String+with+quotes%22 suddenly being returned as ?myvar=%2522String+with+quotes%2522 and breaking code that uses them, then you now know why.
uh, that’s cool and all, but why not host a lot more gems too. THAT would make Ruby much more beeeeetter on DH
nooooooooooooooo
site down
Great, rake freeze_gems aborted and hosed my app
top work
“uh, that’s cool and all, but why not host a lot more gems too. THAT would make Ruby much more beeeeetter on DH”
I second that, we need more gems 
It’s not that hard to install your own gems locally.
What I’d love to see some day is mongrel support. Get rid of FastCGI. Maybe support an apache load balancing module (forget the name).
It would be great to abandon FastCGI and switch to Mongrel. Is it possible that all hosted applications can run off a general server-wide Mongrel cluster?
Vote for mongrel: https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=home.sugg¤t_step=Index&next_step=DoVote&sid=981&&search=mongrel
Vote ? whatsthe vote for ? I am planning to move to a dedicated server from a blogspot acct. Not too sure which one.
Actually, this is a better mongrel voting link: https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=home.sugg¤t_step=Index&next_step=DoVote&search=mongrel
The above one removes your Mongrel vote if you already voted for it. Ciao.
this might be the wrong place to post this question… but with this change broke my app. It appears that it can’t find one of the gems I was using (Digest::SHA1). so, if we have a rails app, what do I need to do to verify/fix this?
this is the error: NameError (uninitialized constant Digest::SHA1)
Thanks.
I voted for the mongrel installation.
The Apache load balancer that carliver mentioned is mod_proxy_balancer (see page 142 in “Practical Ruby Gems” by David Berube for set up info).
Is this really still “unresolved” or has it just been left and forgotten?
In answer to some of the above questions:
Neil, the voting that is being referred to is the Dreamhost Suggestion systems, which if you are not a customer you wouldn’t know about. It allows everyone who hosts with Dreamhost to have some influence over which improvements they should make as a matter of priority.
McCann, this is the wrong place to post your question, really. Dreamhost employees generally don’t read these comments. Hence the lack of replies. I’d help you if I could, but I’m no expert on Rails… Post on the Discussion Forums http://discussion.dreamhost.com/ if you were hoping for a fellow user to help you or file a Support Request inside the Web Panel if you need the technical support gurus.
I hope it’s this that’s causing gallery not to work on my site and preventing me from installing gelato.
For anyone who got here via a dreamhost gelato installation search, the problem was that I hadn’t removed the brackets between the quote marks when i filled out my database info. If it’s not clear what I mean, read this thread about it http://groups.google.com/group/gelatocms/browse_thread/thread/1202f6b2227b88f
I would also prefer mongrel server, please consider that!
Makes me wanna just into coding Rails!
Cool. I actually need it for the plugin I’m using.