On 14 April 2016 at 21:14, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14 April 2016 at 19:51, Vince Laurent <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: >> "Have you checked the versions of all the gems (including rails) used >> on the old server and installed those and only those on the new one?" >> >> using gem list --local >> >> the old system has 16, the new one 64 >> Here is the list of the differences: >> >> gem old new >> ------------------------------------ >> actionmailer (2.3.5) (4.2.5) >> actionpack (2.3.5) (4.2.5) >> activerecord (2.3.5) (4.2.5) >> activesupport (2.3.5) (4.2.5) >> acts_as_ferret (0.4.8.2) (0.5.4) >> devise (1.0.5) na >> fastthread (1.0.7) na >> ferret (0.11.6) (0.11.8.6) >> jk-ferret (0.11.8.3) na >> passenger (2.2.11) (5.0.27, 5.0.26) >> rack (1.0.1) (1.6.4) >> rails (2.3.5) (4.2.5) >> warden (0.10.2) na >> will_paginate (2.3.12) na >> >> So... do I get rid of ALL the new gems and try to figure out how to just >> install the old ones? > > Probably, you have no hope as you have it, you are still trying to use > rails 4.2.5 which is hugely different to 2.3.5 > Installing a specific gem version is easy. > For example > gem install <name> -v n.n.n > > Not sure whether for Rails you can just remove the gem versions above > and install the 2.3.5 ones or if you will also have problems with the > support tools that come with rails being of a later flavour > > You might also have issues with the version of Ruby you have > installed. I don't know which versions of Ruby 2.3 will run with. > The nicest way to do it would be to use rvm, which lets you run > multiple versions of gems from what are called gemsets, then you can > just make the right versions of gems available to your app. Rvm will > also allow multiple versions of ruby. But really you are on a massive > learning curve, you need someone who knows what they are doing or you > will be splashing about in the swamp for a long time.
Actually thinking about it I could probably lead you through setting the environment up using rvm fairly easily, assuming you are on a sensible OS. What OS are you using? Colin > > Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAL%3D0gLuei%2Bc00qh8EhRyObMssvzjsj_UgvNu9NFSE8REpY6zQw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
