Comments on: Rails Gem Dependencies and Plugin Errors

By: Apple Town Prince » Blog Archive » Ruby on Rails: Updating and Checking Versions

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:04:22 +0000

[...] Rails > 2.1 now with gem dependencies and here [...]

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By: Phil Misiowiec

Phil Misiowiec — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:13:24 +0000

I see this has been fixed in Edge Rails - yay!

http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/1edb5c85b58653a6fdc73ae1c6c63e317b466b27

By: Darragh Curran

Darragh Curran — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:56:26 +0000

What surprised me most is that observers and initializers aren’t loaded – and there’s no warning of this.

I’d prefer if it behaved as you’ve done – aborting when gem is missing.

I hit this because I was doing a small bit of dev on a windows box – and I didn’t bother manually installing gems with binary dependencies. But I had to dig into rails to find out why my app was breaking.

Now I’m aware of this it’s not a problem.

I created a ticket on lighthouse http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/618-initializer-doesnt-load-observers-initializers-if-unable-to-load-a-gem#ticket-618-1