URGENT! can't activate actionpack (= 1.13.6, runtime) for ["actionwebservice-1.2.6"], already activated actionpack-2.3.5 for ["rails-2.3.5"] (Gem::LoadError)

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Hi guys,

I have added consumption of a couple of web services to my application and everything seemed to be going well. That is after yesterday, when I was asked to install whatever I had in a test server that runs in production mode (used also for demos) and when I tested the production environment in my PC the mongrel server gave me the above error.

I spent about 3 hours last night googling and seeing how I could fix the problem but nothing I tried worked. I saw old messages about it and one of them, from Fred Cheung, I believe, mentioned about freezing gems. I really would not like to do that unless I have to since I've never done it before and I don't know the impact that would have in the rest of the applications we have.

Another post mentioned about getting rid of any actionpack gem higher than the one required by actionwebservice but I am afraid that doing so will screw up actionsupport and/or activerecord.

Below is the list of gems currently installed. I would appreciate any help as I am kind of stuck and need to get this thing done asap. Thanks in advance

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

actionmailer (2.3.5, 2.2.2) actionpack (2.3.5, 2.2.2, 1.13.6, 1.13.3) actionwebservice (1.2.6, 1.2.3) activerecord (2.3.5, 2.2.2, 1.15.6, 1.15.3) activerecord-oracle-adapter (1.0.0.9250) activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter (1.2.3) activerecord-sqlserver-adapter (2.3.5) activeresource (2.3.5, 2.2.2) activesupport (2.3.5, 2.3.3, 2.2.2, 1.4.4, 1.4.2) archive-tar-minitar (0.5.2) authlogic (2.1.3) builder (2.1.2) calendar_date_select (1.15, 1.13) cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.5.0) color (1.4.0) cucumber (0.6.2) diff-lcs (1.1.2) fastthread (1.0.1) fxri (0.3.6) fxruby (1.6.6) gem_plugin (0.2.3) hoe (1.8.2) hpricot (0.4) ibm_db (1.1.1) json_pure (1.2.0) linecache (0.43) log4r (1.0.5) mongrel (1.1.5) mongrel_service (0.3.4) mysql (2.7.3) paginator (1.1.1) pdf-writer (1.1.8) polyglot (0.2.9) rack (1.0.1) railroad (0.5.0) rails (2.3.5, 2.2.2) rake (0.8.7, 0.8.3) rspec (1.3.0) ruby-debug-base (0.10.3, 0.10.2) ruby-debug-ide (0.4.5, 0.3.1) rubyforge (1.0.3, 1.0.2, 1.0.1) rubygems-update (1.3.6, 1.3.5, 1.3.1) sources (0.0.1) sqlite3-ruby (1.2.1) term-ansicolor (1.0.4) transaction-simple (1.4.0) treetop (1.4.3) win32-api (1.4.6) win32-clipboard (0.4.1) win32-dir (0.3.1) win32-eventlog (0.4.3) win32-file (0.5.3) win32-file-stat (1.2.3) win32-process (0.5.1) win32-sapi (0.1.3) win32-service (0.7.1, 0.5.2) win32-sound (0.4.0) win32console (1.2.0) windows-api (0.4.0) windows-pr (1.0.9, 0.6.2)

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Another post mentioned about getting rid of any actionpack gem higher than the one required by actionwebservice but I am afraid that doing so will screw up actionsupport and/or activerecord.

Below is the list of gems currently installed. I would appreciate any help as I am kind of stuck and need to get this thing done asap. Thanks in advance

The core issue is that you have actionwebservice 1.2.6 which requires active support 1.2.6 but this rest of rails requires active support 2.3.5 (requires in the sense that gem dependencies specify those versions).

You could look at GitHub - datanoise/actionwebservice: This project is discontinued - looks like it was updated to be inline with 2.3.2 and i'm pretty sure changes since 2.3.2 that might affect this have been minimal

Fred

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Thanks Fred,

I tried to install the last version from datanoise by running "gem install/update actionwebservice" but that got me nowhere (still showing actionwebservice 1.2.6). Is that not the install command from datanoise's gem?

If datanoise's gem is not the same as the 'regular' actionwebservice, will I need to change my code or is datanoise the "evolution" of the original actionwebservice?

You mentioned 2.3.2. If I were able to install that gem version, would I have to work with rails 2.3.2 as well?

Thanks a lot.

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Thanks Fred,

I tried to install the last version from datanoise by running "gem install/update actionwebservice" but that got me nowhere (still showing actionwebservice 1.2.6). Is that not the install command from datanoise's gem?

If datanoise's gem is not the same as the 'regular' actionwebservice, will I need to change my code or is datanoise the "evolution" of the original actionwebservice?

as i understand it it's just the 'old' actionwebservice updated to still work with recent versions of rails. You might have to install the gem by hand (get the source, build the gem with gem build blah.gemspec and then install the resulting .gem file)

You mentioned 2.3.2. If I were able to install that gem version, would I have to work with rails 2.3.2 as well?

To run with rails 2.3.5 you would at the very least update the gem to require that version of actionpack/activesupport etc. There are forks of that gem that purport to have done that

Fred

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as i understand it it's just the 'old' actionwebservice updated to still work with recent versions of rails. You might have to install the gem by hand (get the source, build the gem with gem build blah.gemspec and then install the resulting .gem file)

I'll have to give it a try. Never built a gem from source before, though. Could be fun. I wish I had more time.

To run with rails 2.3.5 you would at the very least update the gem to require that version of actionpack/activesupport etc. There are forks of that gem that purport to have done that

I am guessing that would be just replacing the value of the version number required? I love Ruby but I'd rather not mess with code that is not mine or I don't understand. :wink:

Thanks a lot Fred.

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> as i understand it it's just the 'old' actionwebservice updated to > still work with recent versions of rails. You might have to install > the gem by hand (get the source, build the gem with gem build > blah.gemspec and then install the resulting .gem file)

I'll have to give it a try. Never built a gem from source before, though. Could be fun. I wish I had more time.

> To run with rails 2.3.5 you would at the very least update the gem to > require that version of actionpack/activesupport etc. There are forks > of that gem that purport to have done that

I am guessing that would be just replacing the value of the version number required? I love Ruby but I'd rather not mess with code that is not mine or I don't understand.

At the very minimum. I don't think rails would have changed much in the sort of ways that would affect this between 2.3.5 and 2.3.2. Some of the forks seem to have done that change already.

Fred

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Thanks again Fred.