rails 2.1 and rubygems

rubyonrails-talk
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I updated to rails 2.1 on my dev machine, freeze rails into vendor,and upload to my host. however, I now get an error on startup

/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:181:in `install_gem_spec_stubs': undefined method `loaded_specs' for Gem:Module (NoMethodError)

It appears I need rubygems >= 0.9.4

However, I'm on shared hosting and cannot do gem update --system and the hosting co. isn't being cooperative.

is there a workaround for this? Is it possible to put rubygems in vendor/ or lib/? I tried it but it's not working. I think it's still using the old rubygems.

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Someone at RailsConf asked about freezing gems into the app, and Jeremy Kemper said it was possible... but I can't how he said to do it... something about rake gems:dependencies or something...

I know you have to declare gem dependencies, and then rake:freeze:gems I think.

I could, and may, be wrong...

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You can use ~/.gemrc to set your GEM_HOME and GEM_PATH to any location you want (one which is writeable by you).

-- Chad

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This link might help you, I found that I had to do some similar hacking to get gem to 'freeze'

http://www.godale.org/blog/2008/04/freezing-rubygems-on-shared-server.html

Sure seems like there should be hooks into rake's freeze task to let you opt to do this. -Dale