Bypassing rack version error using Rails 2.3.5

Question

I\'m currently on Dreamhost attempting to run a Rails 2.3.5 app.

Here is the situation, Dreamhost\'s servers have Rails 2.2.2 installed. Of course, I can\'t update a

Answer 1

Apparently this whole thing with Rails wanting rack 1.0.1 is a small dependency requirement bug in actionpack which can be solved fairly easily.

For me it was enough to edit vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller.rb on line 34 from gem 'rack', '~> 1.0.1' to gem 'rack', '~> 1.0' and the problem went away.

See: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/tickets/3685-actionpack-235-gem-declares-incompatibility-with-rack-110