From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-02-17T18:30:04+09:00
Subject: Re: moving from ruby ee 1.8.6 to 1.8.7 (ee)

On Feb 17, 4:20 am, Alex DeCaria <alex.deca...@millersville.edu>
wrote:
> Rafath Khan wrote:
> > Hello
>
> > I've decide to upgrade my ruby ee from 1.8.6 to 1.8.7 on debian. I've
> > copied all gems from /opt/ruby-enterprise/ to new location but
> > unfortunatelly it doesnt work, do I've to reinstall all gems?
>

It is recommended since gems with binary extensions will be trying to
link to a different Ruby shared object that could expose a different
ABI (in theory).

You can simply do the following:

gem install rubygems_snapshot

http://github.com/rogerleite/rubygems_snapshot

then export the list of gems you currently have and import it on your
newer installation.

HTH,
--
Luis Lavena