regin LoadError with rack-mount and backports when trying to run unicorn

[Allen Hewes]

Hi Vit,

Before I reply to you, I wanted to let you know that I am grateful to you, Bohuslav, Lutterkort, Jeroen, Mamoru and Mo (and others) for all the Fedora/RH Ruby RPM/packaging. I have my own Koji cooker where I am currently building 165 packages for RHEL5 to support a suite of Rails applications and I'd be solving my problem very differently if you guys weren't around.

I only jumped in because the OP is having bundler issues and I know for a fact that bundler is broken as packaged by Fedora.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ruby-sig-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:ruby-sig-
> bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Vít Ondruch
> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 7:27 AM
> To: ruby-sig at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: regin LoadError with rack-mount and backports when trying
> to run unicorn
>
> Dne 18.9.2013 19:26, Allen Hewes napsal(a):
> > Hi Vit,
> >
> > I am not sure that this is related but, the bundler as "built"
> (packaged) in Fedora has a "bug" in it. "lib/bundler/vendor" should
> have never been removed [1].
>
> It has to be removed due to Fedora policies.

I understand the polices here. I really do. But when policies produce a broken package, wouldn't a better decision be to NOT produce that package? Since it shows up in a yum command, probably everyone thinks that package is sane and works as expected, at least I did. I can't speak for the OP.

>
> > Well, if it was removed, someone should have modified bundler to load
> the thor/net-http-persistent gem via a require/relative_require. But
> that's not what happened.
>
> There is no way how to do it, since you don't know where to find
> thor/net-http-persistent on the system. If Bundler had used original
> RubyGems require, it would be OK, but they opted to use their custom
> loader. That is the biggest fail in Bundler design (if we can speak of
> desing, since Bundler is unfortunately just pile of workarounds).
>

I toyed with producing RPMs like rubygem-bundler-thor / rubygem-bundler-net-http-persistent and modifying the vendored_persistent.rb/vendored_thor.rb files. I was thinking of satisfying Fedora's policies so that I could give my work to Fedora. I never took this past thinking about it.

I also toyed (made local changes to bundler) with changing bundler to load them ala require/relative_require but arrived at the same place you describe; the bundler guys are doing their level best to make a mess out of $./$LOAD_PATH. That combined with their rubygems "emulation", I gave up and just decided to produce my own version of rubygem-bundler that didn't wipe out "lib/bundler/vendor". After a few days, I gave up on this idea. I MUST have a working bundler.

Also, you won't hear me talking up bundler. I can't stand the darn thing and it's not a very good solution to a hard problem. Plainly, I hate it. The problem bundler solves should be solved in rubygems or a rubygems plugin.

I can't deploy my rails applications WITHOUT bundler.

> >
> > As a matter of fact, bundler tells you NOT to use a "gem" installed
> version of thor [2], as that "may cause Bundler to malfunction in
> unexpected ways."
>
> Yes, they opted for bundling instead of proper design. Unfortunately,
> Bundler upstream was never open to any of our suggestions towards
> better
> packaging and easier collaboration with distributions. They live in
> Ruby
> (MacOS X) world and they can't imagine, that somebody might use
> something else.
>
> >
> > When I looked into this for my needs, I determined that a patch would
> be required to make bundler happy if the "lib/bundler/vendor" directory
> was removed. You'd have to modify vendored_thor.rb and
> vendored_persistent.rb.
>
> Could you share your patch with us, please?

I solved my issue by importing the rubygem-bundler packaging source and commenting out the removal of "lib/bundler/vendor". Like I mentioned earlier, I have my own Koji setup and I produce a yum repo "overlay" ontop of RHEL5 for my needs. So my version of rubygem-bundler does work for my needs.

>
> >
> > Usage of many of the bundler arguments (--with/without, etc) causes
> errors when "lib/bundler/vendor" has been removed.
>
> Some examples? Bugzillas?

I created a BZ report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1010406.

>
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/allen

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