rubygem-rack in epel and fedora

[Mohammed Morsi]

  On 09/13/2010 12:48 PM, Michal Fojtik wrote:
> On 13/09/10 11:12 -0400, Mohammed Morsi wrote:
>>   On 09/13/2010 08:31 AM, Michal Fojtik wrote:
>>> On 12/09/10 19:34 -0500, Michael Stahnke wrote:
>>>> I'd like to bump rubygem-rack to the latest (1.2.1) in Rawhide and
>>>> EPEL.  I was worried about EPEL and even started making a seperate
>>>> branch for a rack1 package, but according to my queries, the only
>>>> packages requiring rack in EPEL are:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> EPEL:
>>>>
>>>> stahnma at tyr /home/stahnma>   repoquery -q --whatrequires "rubygem(rack)"
>>>> rubygem-sinatra-1:1.0-2.el5.noarch
>>>> rubygem-shotgun-0:0.4-1.el5.noarch
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> F13:
>>>>
>>>> stahnma at olive /home/stahnma>   repoquery --whatrequires "rubygem(rack)"
>>>> rubygem-actionpack-1:2.3.5-1.fc13.noarch
>>>> rubygem-actionpack-1:2.3.5-2.fc13.noarch
>>>> rubygem-merb-core-0:1.0.15-1.fc13.noarch
>>>> rubygem-shotgun-0:0.4-1.fc13.noarch
>>>> rubygem-sinatra-1:0.9.4-2.fc12.noarch
>>>> rubygem-sinatra-1:1.0-1.fc13.noarch
>>>> rubygem-thin-0:1.2.5-5.fc13.i686
>>> FYI: when I tried to use rack-1.2.1 with new Rack I got:
>>> (same error for Rails 2.3.5)
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.2.1/lib/rack/utils.rb:138:in `union': can't convert Array into String (TypeError)
>>>     from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.2.1/lib/rack/utils.rb:138
>>> </snip>
>>>
>>> I'll contact Sinatra upstream to fix it.
>>>
>>>     -- Michal
>>>
>> I discovered and reported this issue (or at least a very similar one) a
>> little while back. Its not a upstream problem, rather a Fedora packaging
>> problem as we change actionpack 2.3.5 to be compatible with Rack 1.1.0
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617803
>>
>> The problem is though we miss one important change which is causing this
>> error. My updated patch to actionpack fixes this
>>
>> http://mo.morsi.org/files/patches/rubygem-actionpack-2.3.5-rack-compat.patch
>>
>> I'm guessing this is a same or similar problem for sinatra.
> Well, after small investigation and chat with Sinatra folks I can confirm
> that this is not Rack/Sinatra relevant bug, but Ruby 1.8.6 bug.
>
> After I tried this gem with Ruby 1.8.7 installed through 'rvm', this
> exception dissapears and all stuff is working normally now.
>
> I hope we will have Ruby 1.8.7 soon ;-)
>
>    -- Michal
>
Ruby 1.8.7 will be shipping with Fedora 14.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Ruby_1.8.7

   -Mo