ruby on rails 1.2.6 and ActiveMerchant

Question

I am trying to run ActiveMerchant gem with old version of Rails (1.2.6). And if I require active_merchant gem i get this error:

config/boot.rb:17:Warning: Gem::SourceIndex#search support for String patterns is deprecated, use #find_name
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:280:in `activate': can't activate activesupport (>= 2.3.2, runtime) for ["activemerchant-1.4.2"], already activated activesupport-1.4.4 for ["rails-1.2.6"] (Gem::LoadError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:296:in `activate'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:295:in `each'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:295:in `activate'

Upgrading rails is not possible. So what should I do? Maybe i can use older version of ActiveMerchant if so what version works with rails 1.2.6?

Answer 1

Try installing as a plugin:

git clone git://github.com/Shopify/active_merchant.git vendor/plugins/active_merchant

Answer 2

If you're going to actively develop your app with new features, take the time to upgrade to rails 2.3.

It's a pain, I agree, but sticking with an old version of Rails and using newer, incompatible gems is going to be far worse!

Take the time to invest in a Rails upgrade and you'll be very happy you did. Imagine all the rails 2.x goodness you'll get!

Answer 3

As Ariejan says, updating to Rails 2.3 is the best thing you can do.

Active Merchant doesn't tags their project for different versions. So you can't rely on it. However you can use an old commit from when Rails 1.2.6 was released.

The release is the 24th november 2007 So using the datas as they were at the last commit just before that release should work.

However I wouldn't advise you to do that. If there's been a security update since that moment (and it was two years ago. So you can be pretty sure there was), you are including a security hole to your application.
Once again, upgrading to Rails 2.3 is the best option you can take here.