ports/184748: Upgrade of devel/rubygem-sprockets to 2.10.1 breaks www/rubygem-rails

[Steve Wills]

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 01:08:37PM +0100, Matthias Petermann wrote:
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> Hello,
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> rubygem-rails is not working anymore with current ports tree. Beside
> the upgrade of rubygem-sprockets that breaks it, there is at least one
> more broken dependency: rubygem-tilt. The current version 2.0.0 is not
> compatible with rubegemy-rails 3.2.16. This breaks further
> applications based on rails, e.g. www/redmine (Web Based Project
> Management).
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> I'm not a ruby/rails expert so maybe this question appears stupid, but
> does the ruby package manager (gem) support multiple gem versions at
> once? 

Yes, it does, but not with the way we use it in ports.

> So would it be possible to have e.g. two different
> rubygem-tilt-versions at one and the same time? 

Ports doesn't support installing multiple versions, but we can work around it
by creating a new port with the version in the name.

> Maybe it's worth the
> effort to maintain not just the latest version of rails and it's
> dependencies but always have a consistent "frozen" state where
> applications (like redmine) can rely on?

Yeah, what probably needs to be done is to just create a
devel/rubygem-sprockets22 port that rails can use.

I've assigned the PR to the person who updated sprockets, but if they don't get
to it I will try to do that soon myself.

Thanks for the report.

Steve