Downgrading from Ruby 2.1.6 to Ruby 1.8.7

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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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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

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Frederick C. 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 :frowning:

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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 If the server is so outdated that it doesn’t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 J.

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

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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.