Rails - Jan 2008 - What to do when your host doesn't have rails 2.0 yet

I''m working on my first rails application, and I''d like to
just go
ahead and do it in rails 2.0.

My hosting provider (bluehost) has rails 1.2.6 installed right now
though, and hasn''t upgraded yet.

Can I develop on my own machine in 2.0, then freeze the app, and
upload it to my server?  Or am I kind of stuck until they have 2.0
running?

Thanks.
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On 1/2/08, markbuckingham-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
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wrote:
>
> I''m working on my first rails application, and I''d like
to just go
> ahead and do it in rails 2.0.
>
> My hosting provider (bluehost) has rails 1.2.6 installed right now
> though, and hasn''t upgraded yet.
>
> Can I develop on my own machine in 2.0, then freeze the app, and
> upload it to my server?  Or am I kind of stuck until they have 2.0
> running?
Yes.

Freezing to a specific version of Rails in a shared environment is a
good idea anyway, just on the off-chance they do a `gem cleanup` or
something.


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Greg Donald wrote:
> On 1/2/08, markbuckingham-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
<markbuckingham-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>
>Yes.
>
> --
> Greg Donald
> http://destiney.com/
Hey Greg, can he do the upgrade himself with SSH?

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On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:05:44PM -0800,
markbuckingham-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
wrote:
> I''m working on my first rails application, and I''d like
to just go
> ahead and do it in rails 2.0.
> 
> My hosting provider (bluehost) has rails 1.2.6 installed right now
> though, and hasn''t upgraded yet.
> 
> Can I develop on my own machine in 2.0, then freeze the app, and
> upload it to my server?  Or am I kind of stuck until they have 2.0
> running?
I''ve been doing some work (pro bono, actually) for someone with
Bluehost.
You can install your own gems, including Rails, in your home directory. See
http://helpdesk.bluehost.com/kb/index.php?x=&mod_id=2&id=418

You can probably do it over FTP, but it''s much easier over SSH.
> Thanks.
--Greg


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On Jan 2, 8:02 pm, Gregory Seidman
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wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:05:44PM -0800,
markbucking...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
> I''ve been doing some work (pro bono, actually) for someone with
Bluehost.
> You can install your own gems, including Rails, in your home directory.
Seehttp://helpdesk.bluehost.com/kb/index.php?x=&mod_id=2&id=418
>
> You can probably do it over FTP, but it''s much easier over SSH.
>
> > Thanks.
>
> --Greg
Perfect!  Thanks for the help.
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On Jan 2, 9:38 pm,
"markbucking...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org"
<markbucking...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On Jan 2, 8:02 pm, Gregory Seidman
<gsslist+...-dNXPQ6k9rNiG6BJUYyje5axOck334EZe@public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:05:44PM -0800,
markbucking...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
> > I''ve been doing some work (pro bono, actually) for someone
with Bluehost.
> > You can install your own gems, including Rails, in your home
directory.
Seehttp://helpdesk.bluehost.com/kb/index.php?x=&mod_id=2&id=418
>
> > You can probably do it over FTP, but it''s much easier over
SSH.
>
> > > Thanks.
>
> > --Greg
>
> Perfect!  Thanks for the help.
Well, I tried the steps below from the link:

------------------
1) Using File Manager in your cPanel make a copy of the .bashrc file
in your root directory, name it .bashrc.bak.
2) Now edit the .bashrc file and add the following to the end of the
file:

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/packages/bin:$HOME/.gems/bin"
export GEM_HOME="$HOME/.gems"
export GEM_PATH="$GEM_HOME:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8"
export GEM_CACHE="$GEM_HOME/cache"

3) Using your favorite SSH client connect to your site.
4) at the prompt type:
cp /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/sources-0.0.1.gem ./
gem install sources-0.0.1.gem
gem update -y
This will update rails to the latest version and install it to your
local gem directory.
-----------------

The output of gem update -y was only a message that no gems were
updated.  (Actually it was something like [] gems updated.)

I tried to do gem install rails, and it ended up installing a local
copy of rails 1.2.0.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
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markbuckingham-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
wrote:
> On Jan 2, 9:38 pm,
"markbucking...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org"
> <markbucking...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>> > --Greg
>>
>> Perfect!  Thanks for the help.
> 
> Well, I tried the steps below from the link:
> 
> ------------------
> 1) Using File Manager in your cPanel make a copy of the .bashrc file
> in your root directory, name it .bashrc.bak.
> 2) Now edit the .bashrc file and add the following to the end of the
> file:
> 
> export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/packages/bin:$HOME/.gems/bin"
> export GEM_HOME="$HOME/.gems"
> export GEM_PATH="$GEM_HOME:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8"
> export GEM_CACHE="$GEM_HOME/cache"
> 
> 3) Using your favorite SSH client connect to your site.
> 4) at the prompt type:
> cp /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/sources-0.0.1.gem ./
> gem install sources-0.0.1.gem
> gem update -y
> This will update rails to the latest version and install it to your
> local gem directory.
> -----------------
> 
> The output of gem update -y was only a message that no gems were
> updated.  (Actually it was something like [] gems updated.)
> 
> I tried to do gem install rails, and it ended up installing a local
> copy of rails 1.2.0.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks.
1. I tried updating by following the above steps but failed.. there was 
no file named sources-0.0.1.gem I just downloaded it from rubyforge and

2. tried: "gem update -y" but there were many errors on rails 
installation.

3. but "gem install rails" got rails 2.0.2 installed without any 
issues.. so far so good. got to test it by using a rail app to make sure 
it works :)

hope this helps..
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it''s a pretty good practice to freeze rails in any production 
environment to avoid updates that might affect your app. This way, no 
matter if you are local or deploying on the server it will always run 
off of what version you froze into the app.
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Buddhi De silva wrote:
> markbuckingham-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
>> On Jan 2, 9:38 pm,
"markbucking...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org"
>> <markbucking...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> > --Greg
>>>
>>> Perfect!  Thanks for the help.
>> 
>> Well, I tried the steps below from the link:
>> 
>> ------------------
>> 1) Using File Manager in your cPanel make a copy of the .bashrc file
>> in your root directory, name it .bashrc.bak.
>> 2) Now edit the .bashrc file and add the following to the end of the
>> file:
>> 
>> export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/packages/bin:$HOME/.gems/bin"
>> export GEM_HOME="$HOME/.gems"
>> export GEM_PATH="$GEM_HOME:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8"
>> export GEM_CACHE="$GEM_HOME/cache"
>> 
>> 3) Using your favorite SSH client connect to your site.
>> 4) at the prompt type:
>> cp /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/sources-0.0.1.gem ./
>> gem install sources-0.0.1.gem
>> gem update -y
>> This will update rails to the latest version and install it to your
>> local gem directory.
>> -----------------
>> 
>> The output of gem update -y was only a message that no gems were
>> updated.  (Actually it was something like [] gems updated.)
>> 
>> I tried to do gem install rails, and it ended up installing a local
>> copy of rails 1.2.0.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> Thanks.
> 
> 1. I tried updating by following the above steps but failed.. there was 
> no file named sources-0.0.1.gem I just downloaded it from rubyforge and
> 
> 2. tried: "gem update -y" but there were many errors on rails 
> installation.
> 
> 3. but "gem install rails" got rails 2.0.2 installed without any 
> issues.. so far so good. got to test it by using a rail app to make sure 
> it works :)
> 
> hope this helps..


I was able to install rails 2.0.2 to my local directory also and was 
able to successfully create a rails 2.0.2 project.  HOWEVER, I get the 
"Rails application failed to start properly" when I test out my 
application.  Does anybody know why this is?  Is it because the server 
can''t handle rails 2.0.2 requests?

BTW, I can get a rails 1.2.6 project working fine on bluehost by 
changing the permissions in the public directory.  However like i said, 
no luck with rails 2.0.2.
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Does anyone know how to change the path to a specific rails installation
you would like the server to use?  For example, i installed rails 2.0.2
in my local directory, but when i''m making requests to the server its
still using the rails installed on the /usr/lib/ruby/1.8.
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Do you have a vendor directory where you installed Rails? Normally if
you have a vendor directory your app should refer to the Rails setup
contained there first.

On Jan 22, 12:44 pm, Ken Le
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wrote:
> Does anyone know how to change the path to a specific rails installation
> you would like the server to use?  For example, i installed rails 2.0.2
> in my local directory, but when i''m making requests to the server
its
> still using the rails installed on the /usr/lib/ruby/1.8.
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pfalcone-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
> Do you have a vendor directory where you installed Rails? Normally if
> you have a vendor directory your app should refer to the Rails setup
> contained there first.
How would I go about doing what you described?
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rake rails:freeze:gems

On Jan 21, 9:20 pm, Ken Le
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wrote:
> pfalc...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
> > Do you have a vendor directory where you installed Rails? Normally if
> > you have a vendor directory your app should refer to the Rails setup
> > contained there first.
>
> How would I go about doing what you described?
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Melvin Ram wrote:
> rake rails:freeze:gems
I believe i tried that but it doesnt work because bluehost doesnt have 
subversion.
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I don''t think that requires subversion. Give it a spin

On Jan 21, 10:30 pm, Ken Le
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wrote:
> Melvin Ram wrote:
> > rake rails:freeze:gems
>
> I believe i tried that but it doesnt work because bluehost doesnt have
> subversion.
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Put this line in your environment.rb, and it should work:
ENV[''GEM_PATH''] =
''/home/yourhome/yourgem-home''

Ken Le wrote:
> Does anyone know how to change the path to a specific rails installation
> you would like the server to use?  For example, i installed rails 2.0.2
> in my local directory, but when i''m making requests to the server
its
> still using the rails installed on the /usr/lib/ruby/1.8.
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