Loading environment fails with an outdated version of RubyGems while using config.gem "some_gem"

+1 rails definitely needs a patch to fix this... it is terrible to have things fail with a cryptic error

Simple fix: rails already was requiring rubygems >= 0.9.4.

This patch makes it require rubygems >= 1.1.1

I don't see the attachment from my last comment. Can only admins see it??

I'm attaching it again, and including in this comment. Sorry if it ends up being a repeat.

From ec3108863e6fa7613fb251f1dd916c9a3e668665 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Lowenfels
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 18:34:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] requiring rubygems version 1.1.1

---
 railties/environments/boot.rb |   10 +++++-----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/railties/environments/boot.rb b/railties/environments/boot.rb
index cd21fb9..4bb0e06 100644
--- a/railties/environments/boot.rb
+++ b/railties/environments/boot.rb
@@ -82,17 +82,17 @@ module Rails
 
       def load_rubygems
         require 'rubygems'
-
-        unless rubygems_version >= '0.9.4'
-          $stderr.puts %(Rails requires RubyGems >= 0.9.4 (you have #{rubygems_version}). Please `gem update --system` and try again.)
+        min_version = '1.1.1'
+        unless rubygems_version >= min_version
+          $stderr.puts %Q(Rails requires RubyGems >= #{min_version} (you have #{rubygems_version}). Please `gem update --system` and try again.)
           exit 1
         end
 
       rescue LoadError
-        $stderr.puts %(Rails requires RubyGems >= 0.9.4. Please install RubyGems and try again: http://rubygems.rubyforge.org)
+        $stderr.puts %Q(Rails requires RubyGems >= #{min_version}. Please install RubyGems and try again: http://rubygems.rubyforge.org)
         exit 1

+1

I had that problem as well a few days ago.

Question: Would it be possible to have something similar to rake gems:install for RubyGems itself? And would that make sense?

The initializer could do a stricter version check. Then boot.rb doesn't have to be updated for all apps (the rubygems version requirement in boot.rb is just enough to get Rails off the ground).

Thanks, everyone, for your work on this. I really appreciate that this will save someone some grief down the road!

Thank you! I saw this error today on Linux (with RubyGems 0.9.4), this ticket really help me to quickly fix this.

@jeremy: any way you can edit the comments to remove my email address (spambait) from my "July 8th, 2008 @ 08:50 PM" comment? Thx!

I'm not sure if my problem is related to (or caused by) this fix, but now for some reason when I run any script/generate call, I get undefined method errors spawning from the lib files that I require in my environment.rb file.

For instance I have these lines in my environment.rb:

1. Bootstrap the Rails environment, frameworks, and default configuration

require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'boot')

require 'locale/custom'

So when the I call 'ruby script/generate mailer postoffice', the process loads my environment.rb (apparently before loading the rest of Rails core). Because when it gets to my custom require, it fails saying it can't find the Rails core modules and classes referenced in the required file. Specifically: 'backend=' for I18n:Module.

Why wouldn't it have loaded the Rails core files at this point? And why does the script/server call work just fine?

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