Rails Ruby on Rails → 3.0.2

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  Matt Jones July 26th, 2009 @ 05:32 AM

  At best, you could have Rack in vendor/gems - but as discussed here:

  http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core/browse_thread/threa...

  That's going to potentially lead to problems in some environments.

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  Michael Koziarski August 3rd, 2009 @ 06:04 AM

  • Assigned user set to “Matt Jones”
  • State changed from “new” to “wontfix”
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  Yehuda Katz (wycats) August 3rd, 2009 @ 07:40 AM

  • Milestone cleared.

  @koz why is this a wontfix?

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  Michael Koziarski August 3rd, 2009 @ 08:48 AM

  Not sure if that was intentional, I did a tonne of changes before
  coming home tonight and have lost track.

  Matt's the guy for 2-3-stable's gem stuff, so if he thinks it's viable
  for 2.3 then cool, otherwise happy to bump to 3.0.

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  Yehuda Katz (wycats) August 3rd, 2009 @ 09:02 AM

  • State changed from “wontfix” to “open”

  Reopening for 3.0. The gem stuff we're working on should make this trivial (in fact, it's core to the stuff we're working on).

  Matt, do you want to open a separate ticket for this in 2.3? Or just leave it for 3.0?

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  Matt Jones August 3rd, 2009 @ 10:28 AM

  I tend to agree with Koz on the wontfix (for 2.3) - the 2.3 gem loader isn't capable of supporting this well. See this discussion on the core list for more detail.

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  Yehuda Katz (wycats) August 3rd, 2009 @ 11:17 AM

  @matt sounds good. We should have this fully working on edge in the next week or two -- it should be natively supported once we wire up the git-as-gem support into the bundler.

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  Yehuda Katz (wycats) August 3rd, 2009 @ 11:17 AM

  • Tag changed from “rack” to “bundler, gem, rack”

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  Joe Van Dyk September 8th, 2009 @ 12:03 AM

  I'm still in the dark as to why rack is the only library that rails 2.3 requires be installed as a gem, even if it's already included in my application.

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  Joe Van Dyk September 8th, 2009 @ 12:06 AM

  Would it work to rescue the exception raised by rubygems if rack isn't installed as a gem?
  

  Or is there a reason why rack has to be loaded as a gem? For my applications, I've been commenting out the "gem 'rack'" line and everything has been working fine.

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  Matt Jones September 8th, 2009 @ 12:26 AM

  @Joe Van Dyk:

  Check the links from the rails-core list above; the issue is that the gem is loaded well before the Rails initializer stuff gets to run - if you're running from an installed gem version, it's already been activated by the time you get to the "gem 'rack'" line in action_controller.rb.

  Also note the discussion of the behavior under Passenger; in summary, it's not currently practical to vendor Rack because it won't work consistently across deployment environments. You can try unpacking it in vendor/gems, but there's no guarantee it will work correctly everywhere.

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  Joe Van Dyk September 8th, 2009 @ 12:30 AM

  Matt -- if the rack gem has already been loaded by the time the code gets to "gem 'rack'", then why have it there?

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  Matt Jones September 8th, 2009 @ 01:21 AM

  There's a key difference for gems between 'loaded' and 'activated'. 'Loaded' is what most people think of - the gem has executed its initialization code and loaded its classes into memory; typically this is accomplished with require. 'Activated' is more complicated. A gem is 'activated' after you call "gem 'foobar'", but all that means is that its spec has been loaded and the declared load paths added to the Ruby load path. 'gem "foobar"' does one other thing: if it's passed a version string and the gem is already activated, it verifies that the activated gem satisfies the version requirement and fails if it doesn't. So the "gem 'rack', '~> 1.0.0'" line serves to both activate Rack and verify that the version is 1.0.x, avoiding weird errors down the line if it's not.

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  Yehuda Katz (wycats) February 24th, 2010 @ 07:25 AM

  • State changed from “open” to “invalid”
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  Jeremy Kemper October 15th, 2010 @ 11:01 PM

  • Milestone set to “3.0.2”
  • Importance changed from “” to “Medium”

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