Where can I find a Ruby hacker? The Beast is winning.

Phred on 2008-08-21T09:18:05

Dear LazyPerl,

I had responsibility for a ROR (Ruby on Rails) forum called Beast land squarely in my lap today. Mission critical resource, of course. The box it was being hosted on was upgraded to ruby 1.87, which has some non-backwards compatible upgrades.

Needless to say, the Beast application was not happy, and users cannot post to the forum. Beast 1, Phred 0. The Beast website is also offline. Beast 2, Phred 0.

Do you know a Ruby contractor hacker that can help me even the score? Email fred at redhotpenguin dot com.


#chars

jk2addict on 2008-08-21T12:50:14

I suspect it's not happy because of this change: the #chars now in Ruby kills Rails version:

http://avdi.org/devblog/2008/08/07/the-trifecta-of-fail-or-how-to-patch-rails-20 -for-ruby-187/