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David Dollar

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Wednesday, March 11 2009
2195 Fix the gem dependency system in Rails was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • David Dollar
    David Dollar commented at 1:33 PM

    Updated patch to use an options hash for #unpack
  • David Dollar
    David Dollar commented at 1:28 PM

    I've gone ahead and made the change to support GEM= working on all gems. New patch attached.
  • David Dollar
    David Dollar commented at 1:24 PM

    A new patch is attached.

    • automatic recursion on dependencies is still not always helpful.

      • Agreed. unpack and unpack:dependencies are now back.

    • a minor qui...
  • David Dollar
    David Dollar commented at 12:41 PM

    While I agree with some of your issues and disagree with others, I'm a bit incredulous at "In the light of all that, it is probably better to preserve the exist...
639 Memory cache storage + (cache_classes = false) = Weirdness was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • David Dollar
    David Dollar commented at 5:06 AM

    For anyone that happens to run across this ticket later:

    If you use

    
@authors = cache(:authors) { Author.find(:all) }

    the problem goes away.
Tuesday, March 10 2009
2195 Fix the gem dependency system in Rails was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • David Dollar
    David Dollar commented at 10:47 PM

    Also the current system is inconsistent in its approach to handling development dependencies.
  • David Dollar
    David Dollar commented at 10:47 PM

    I have attached a new patch that addresses your concerns.

    As far as what is broken currently (on a checkout of tag 2.3.1):

    
  config.gem 'RedCloth'
  config....
  • David Dollar
    David Dollar commented at 8:43 PM

    New commit (to see with colorization)

    http://github.com/ddollar/rails/...
  • David Dollar
    David Dollar commented at 8:40 PM

    New patch, fixes the aforementioned issue.
  • David Dollar
    David Dollar commented at 7:04 PM

    As further argument for making recursiveness the default, gems:unpack is there to make your app resistant to the state of the server it's deployed on. If you do...