Matt,

Is there anything we can add to the 1.0.2 Hobo gem?  I've fixed the
dependency so we won't pull in will_paginate 3.0 when it's released,
but it sounds like users will still have a problem if it gets
installed some other way...

thanks,
Bryan

On Nov 1, 9:46 pm, Matt Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Nov 1, 2010, at 9:07 PM, Mark Sobkowicz wrote:
>
> > I had a similar problem to one that Paul Davis had earlier.   My hobo app 
> > stopped working when will_paginate got updated to 3.0.pre2.  Very sad.   So 
> > I uninstalled 3.0.pre2, and my hobo app works again.   But how can I freeze 
> > the will_paginate gem at 2.something?   I'd like to have 3.0 installed on 
> > the machine for other things.   I tried putting:
>
> >  config.gem "will_paginate", :version => '2.3.15'    in my environment.rb
>
> > but it is ignored.    I read that some gems are "framework gems" but I 
> > don't know how to proceed.
>
> Sadly, this is a bug in the Rails 2.3 gem system; due to when the Rakefile is 
> loaded we couldn't get some things to work right (the require 
> 'hobo/tasks/rails' line pulls in the system version, which also picks up its 
> dependencies waaaay before environment.rb gets loaded).
>
> Several options, until there's a version of the gem that sets the 
> will_paginate dependency more tightly:
>
> - run Hobo as a plugin; this will sidestep the problem entirely. There are 
> instructions on the cookbook 
> (http://cookbook.hobocentral.net/recipes/27-how-to-switch-from-the-gem), but 
> add an additional step where you cd into the vendor/plugins/hobo and 'git 
> checkout origin/v1.0.1'.
>
> - switch to Bundler, which is the default on Rails 3. Probably the best 
> long-term solution, as the 2.3 gem loader has some other sneaky bugs caused 
> by the initialization process.
>
> - start using rvm and gemsets to switch between different environments. This 
> is pretty cool, but may be overkill for this particular problem.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> --Matt Jones

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