[Locomotive-users] Odd deployment issue from Loco -> DreamHost

[Lori M Olson]

On 16-Nov-06, at 8:09 AM, Paul Welty wrote:

> I have a field that's serialized in my model with  
> "serialize :field". This
> works fine going back and forth to a hash in Locomotive in  
> development.
> 'field' always comes out as a hash. So, in development, I get a  
> YAML::dump
> like this: !map:HashWithIndifferentAccess key1: "value1" key2:  
> "value2"
>
> But, in production on DreamHost, the deseralization ends up like this:
>
> !ruby/object:YAML::Syck::DomainType domain: yaml.org,2002 type_id:
> map:HashWithIndifferentAccess value: key1: "value1" key2: "value2"
>
> Thus, of course, I can't use the hash methods. And Rails then  
> generates
> errors like "undefined method `include?' for
> #<YAML::Syck::DomainType:0x407fb584>". And this, of course, breaks  
> the whole
> app.
>
> I'm using Rails 1.1.6, and so is DreamHost.
>
> I tried:
> installing Ruby 1.8.5 on DreamHost
> installing a custom rails  package there
> freezing gems (including rails) into my app
>
> None of these make the slightest difference.
>
> I’m guess this might be a DreamHost problem not a Locomotive  
> problem, but who knows.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what might be going on?

I'm not a Dreamhost user, but those errors look suspiciously familiar  
to a problem I had to solve on our production server a few weeks  
ago.  It really looks like you have a Ruby version problem.  I would  
try installing and using Ruby 1.8.4.

Regards, Lori