I'm in the process of moving a load of ancient (Rails 1 & 2) apps to new servers. It's a nightmare because these are running on Ruby 1.8.4 and Ruby 1.8.6 which doesn't even run properly on the latest versions of Linux and OS X. There's also dependency issues, the mysql gem won't compile against recent versions of MySQL, and the same with rmagick... That combined with the not-so-strict development practices of 8 years ago has given me many headaches over the last month. Imaging the machines is an option, but we'd rather avoid having to deal with another shellshock situation so decided to put them on new VMs.
This looks very interesting... What's the support like with Rails apps? If we'd had something like this it would have been a breeze (assuming it is 100% self contained like Go applications).
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I'm in the process of moving a load of ancient (Rails 1 & 2) apps to new servers. It's a nightmare because these are running on Ruby 1.8.4 and Ruby 1.8.6 which doesn't even run properly on the latest versions of Linux and OS X. There's also dependency issues, the mysql gem won't compile against recent versions of MySQL, and the same with rmagick... That combined with the not-so-strict development practices of 8 years ago has given me many headaches over the last month. Imaging the machines is an option, but we'd rather avoid having to deal with another shellshock situation so decided to put them on new VMs.
This looks very interesting... What's the support like with Rails apps? If we'd had something like this it would have been a breeze (assuming it is 100% self contained like Go applications).
I had the best success with Jruby for Rails 2 apps. Makes moving between windows and linux pretty easy.