when I was created a new rails app with rails new app_name. I found that many gems were installed and I suspect I will not use many of them. It is possible to have a minimal set of gems when I do a rails new?
Thank you.
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I'm concerned about this because when I push a fresh new rails app onto heroku, I realized many gems are installed, and I'm not using most of them.
What ending up within your application in controlled through the "Gemfile" in your root directory. Running bundle / bundle install will install the gems and their dependencies.
But having gems available in the system doesn't mean your application will rely on them.
Further reading: http://gembundler.com/gemfile.html
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I want to clean up my development server. I know there are a ton of gems installed that I do not need. I can't seem to find a list anywhere of the default, or minimum gems that Rails normally installs for its self. If someone can help me out that would be greatly appreciated.
Never mind, I was not going crazy, the gem I had installed became a default in the newest version of rails. I did have a clean environment after all.
If you create a new app, you could pull the gems that it defaults to the Gemfile.
I am Ruby/Rails beginner, and I am on Windows.
I just used RailsInstaller to upgrade from Rails 3.0.9 to 3.2.3, from Ruby 1.8.7 to 1.9.3. The gems that I installed previously no longer appear when I type gem list. I assume this is normal.
My question is: Is there a way to get all of those gems "into" Ruby 1.9.3 without individually re-installing them?
When I went into an old rails apps and ran bundle install, it appears that a few of my gems were re-installed (the ones in the Gemfile).
Any help would be appreciated. Sorry if I am missing something obvious.
If you're just upgrading to a new version, as long as everything that was in your Gemfile was installed when you ran bundle install then I wouldn't worry about it. Just re-install gems as you need them instead of bloating your system with gems that you don't currently need.
If you have projects that you are porting over to the newer versions of Rails and Ruby, you can just run bundle install as the first step in upgrading the app to make sure its dependencies are installed.
Maybe someone could give you an yes/no answer for transitioning with RailsInstaller, but I'm trending toward using rvm and gemsets to have a cleaner, more focused environment for each project.
If you want to switch back and forth between multiple ruby versions, maybe check out the gem pik. You can use it to install gems on multiple versions of ruby so that they're available across them all.
So I finally upgraded (and then downgraded because of Unity) Ubuntu and reinstalled RVM but I'b stuck with rails 3.1 now, which is fine but all my old projects are in rails 3.0 and 3.1 has some incompatibilities. Off the top of my head RAILS_ROOT is now Rails.root (which all my projects use in someway), and I was having some issues with heroku when trying to upload a small rails 3.1 app I made to play around (since the PG gem wasnt in my gemlist I couldnt run migrations, and then installing the pg gem caused more issues).
So how do I install rails 3.0 again? I cant seem to find it in the repositories
And I know with gem sets I can install both right? Well if I do that, how do I create a new rails project? Which version of rails would use rails new new_app?
Ok, I understand what you need to do. I would highly recommend making a new Gemset using RVM, that way you can start from scratch and not worry about those things.
To do that, run this in your command line with RVM installed:
// EDIT THIS LINE TO MATCH WHAT YOU WANT
rvm use 1.9.2-or-which-ever-version-you-are-using#temporary_gemset --create
Once this gemset is created, it will be empty, so you can then proceed to install a younger version of rails, like so:
gem install rails -v 3.0.11 // (MAY NEED TO USE SUDO, DEPENDING ON YOUR SET UP)
This should install the older version of rails and its dependencies so that you can still edit and work with your older rails project. Check more of RVM's site for more help on switching between gemsets and creating them.
https://rvm.io//gemsets/
I would still recommend to figure out the differences eventually and move to the newer version for Rails, currently 3.2.5 because they are awesome. Here is some material to show you the differences and new features for when you do that later:
http://railscasts.com/episodes/265-rails-3-1-overview
http://railscasts.com/episodes/282-upgrading-to-rails-3-1
http://railscasts.com/episodes/318-upgrading-to-rails-3-2
I have an app that runs great locally. Everything seems to be set up correctly to transfer over to Heroku, including the Postgres gem (and dev was done using a postgres server).
The problem is, when I try to push it up, I get error messages surrounding the three currently problematic dependencies, bson_ext, bson, and mongoid, 1.4.1. It seems that Sorcery requires these (at 1.4.1) to run. I got them installed locally by downloading the manually, but they were yanked from the online sources. So when Heroku tries to find them, it can't, and it aborts. I tried specifying to use 1.4.0 for all of them, and the app then installs fine (and does the database setup stuff for the Cedar stack, etc).
The problem is that when I load the app on their server, I get the generic "oops, there's been a problem" Heroku message. Upon checking the actual heroku log, I can't really find anything wrong. What is the way to make this work?
Thanks for your help.
I ran into the same problem, and I was able to get past it by specifying version 1.3.1 for the mongo, bson, and bson_ext gems. I just put this in my Gemfile:
gem 'mongo', '1.3.1'
gem 'bson', '1.3.1'
gem 'bson_ext', '1.3.1'
I create my rails application in version 3.0.7.
now i want to deploy my application, but the server is only support 3.0.3
how can i downloadgrade my application?
thanks
replace
gem 'rails','3.0.7'
with
gem 'rails', '3.0.3'
in your gemfile
Then run bundle
On a second note why not upgrade the server to rails 3.0.7?
Unless I'm mistaken... you can't. Well, you can, by:
Creating a new app
Bundle-installing all the necessary plugins, gems, etc
Copying over app files, configs, helpers, tests, everything
Running tests and seeing what doesn't now work
Making changes where required
Unfortunately, I don't believe there exists an easier way.