Downgrading from Ruby 2.1.6 to Ruby 1.8.7

[Moses JJS]

Hi All,

Our client wants to downgrade our e-commerce website from Ruby 2.1.6 to
Ruby 1.8.7. I know this makes no sense. But when we got the requirement
to do the website, we developed using the latest version 2.1.6 but the
client wants to have the website in the old version, since his server is
not compatible with new one (MAKES SENSE?, but no other way).

Could anyone help us? Is there any other tool to do the migration from
2.1.6 to 1.8.7. ??

Looking for help from you guys. Thanks in advance.

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[Frederick Cheung]

On Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 5:22:14 AM UTC+1, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Our client wants to downgrade our e-commerce website from Ruby 2.1.6 to
> Ruby 1.8.7. I know this makes no sense. But when we got the requirement
> to do the website, we developed using the latest version 2.1.6 but the
> client wants to have the website in the old version, since his server is
> not compatible with new one (MAKES SENSE?, but no other way).
>
> Could anyone help us? Is there any other tool to do the migration from
> 2.1.6 to 1.8.7. ??
>

I don't think there is any particular tool to do this. In addition this will require you to downgrade to rails 3.2 which will be completely unsupported when rails 5 is released in the autumn. Ruby 1.8.7 is also not receiving any security patches.

Fred

[Moses JJS]

Frederick Cheung wrote in post #1177922:

> On Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 5:22:14 AM UTC+1, Ruby-Forum.com User
> wrote:
>>
> I don't think there is any particular tool to do this. In addition this
> will require you to downgrade to rails 3.2 which will be completely
> unsupported when rails 5 is released in the autumn. Ruby 1.8.7 is also
> not receiving any security patches.
>
> Fred

Fred,

Thanks for your reply.

So I think we need to do all the things manually :(

[Matt Jones]

On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 23:22:14 UTC-5, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote:

Hi All,

Our client wants to downgrade our e-commerce website from Ruby 2.1.6 to
Ruby 1.8.7. I know this makes no sense. But when we got the requirement
to do the website, we developed using the latest version 2.1.6 but the
client wants to have the website in the old version, since his server is
not compatible with new one (MAKES SENSE?, but no other way).

Ruby will compile on fairly near anything with a sensible C compiler and the `configure` program. If the server is so outdated that it doesn't have that, there are other problems.

There are a variety of tools for allowing multiple Ruby versions to coexist on one system; you should strongly suggest using one.

1.8.7 was end-of-lifed (no further updates from the core team) in June 2013. It received a followup set of security patches in December 2013 to address CVE-2013-4164, but those were from a team at Heroku. Unless you or your client's team have the capability to evaluate 1.8.7's vulnerability to the subsequent 18 months of reported vulnerabilities, you are taking a massive security risk.

Apart from security, the other big reason to encourage a Ruby upgrade vs. an application rewrite is that the Ruby upgrade is straightforward - even if the server is particularly badly-configured, it's still ultimately a well-documented process to get Ruby to build. Rewriting the application is much trickier.

If none of those arguments work, at least post the name of the company on here. I'd like to make sure I never give them my credit card number...

--Matt Jones

[Moses JJS]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for your response.

We rejected the request from the client and returned back the advance
amount they paid and informed like "we would like to stick with our
standard and do not make our project as a buggy or run our website
without any security. "

Thanks a lot for everyone.