Comments on: Rails sessions breaking in Ruby 1.8.7

By: sandip

sandip — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:37:09 +0000

I found fix for this.

http://funonrails.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/fix-for-ruby-1-8-7-incompatibity/

By: Akhil Bansal

Akhil Bansal — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:45:55 +0000

Thanks for the tip

By: Sho

Sho — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:32:40 +0000

Gaston,

If you’re new to Ruby you probably shouldn’t be patching it like this ; )

If you really want to keep Ruby 1.8.7, just export the latest version from svn and install that. It will have the change in this patch included – and recent security updates, too.

In fact the best thing to do is probably to download the latest 1.8.7 tarball from ruby-lang; they were forced to refresh them all recently because of the security problem, so they’re all nice and up to date. It’s really best to use the tarball versions so you know you have the exact same thing as everyone else.

By: Gaston

Gaston — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:30:21 +0000

I’m new with Ruby, and I’m having this problem. Can you point out in a couple of words (or just put a link to some other place) on how to “install this patch and restart the server” ?
TIA

By: Sho Fukamachi Online » Blog Archive » Ruby compatibility debacle(s)

Sho Fukamachi Online » Blog Archive » Ruby compatibility debacle(s) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:30:15 +0000

[...] people just can’t stop achieving! Not content with introducing breaking, backwards-incompatible changes into the Ruby 1.8 branch with 1.8.7, the Ruby Core team have shot for the moon, gone for gold, and doubled down all their bets – and [...]

By: Sho

Sho — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:17:07 +0000

David: Indeed, although an even more pertinent question might be “why are breaking, backwards-incompatible changes being introduced into the Ruby 1.8.x branch in the first place?”

Ric: Me too, as it happens. I fixed the first and second things, then when the third thing broke with no guarantee it wasn’t going to be a hundred more, I thought I’d revert and let the willing early adopter types work out all the issues before continuing…

By: Ric

Ric — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:41:42 +0000

Thanks for the patch link. I just reverted to Ruby 1.8.6 in the end!

By: David

David — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:53:55 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I wasted several hours today trying to get two Rails apps to work (I gave up on the first one, installed the second, then ran into the same problem with that, too, which tipped me off.)

Shouldn’t this kind of thing be caught through testing before Ruby is released?