FTR: turns out this broke the script as it has to run with the same
version of Ruby as Passenger, which is running 2.3.0

On 18 March 2016 at 15:22, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Note: I removed the specific reference to ruby 2.3.0.
>
> The Gemfile now requires >= 2.0.0, and the cgi assumes that ruby is on the 
> PATH.
>
> On 17 March 2016 at 15:19, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 17 March 2016 at 13:18, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 7:20 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> As the subject says.
>>>
>>> Depends on your definition of require.  Ruby >= 2.2.0 will use less
>>> memory and be more responsive due to improvements in garbage
>>> collection:
>>>
>>> https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/12/25/ruby-2-2-0-released/
>>>
>>> For that reason, I'd like the deployed code to use a version of Ruby
>>> that has the improved GC.
>>
>> Fair enough, but that can be done in the documentation and/or puppet config.
>> No need to embed it in scripts.
>>
>>> I would agree that that shouldn't be required for development/testing.
>>>
>>> I haven't investigated, but perhaps that could be expressed in
>>> Gemfiles using the group construct?
>>>
>>> http://yehudakatz.com/2010/05/09/the-how-and-why-of-bundler-groups/
>>
>> Probably, but that adds complication and does not seem necessary here.
>>
>> Note that as it stands, AFAICT the status passenger code won't even
>> run with 2.3.1.
>>
>> The same restriction would presumably apply when using the ruby
>> statement as part of a group, since it's the statement itself that
>> does not support version ranges.
>>
>>> - Sam Ruby
>>>
>>>> MacOS/X comes with 2.0.0 which seems to work for most if not all the code.
>>>>
>>>> So is it necessary to specify ruby 2.3.0 in status/Gemfile
>>>> and /usr/local/bin/ruby2.3.0 in passenger.cgi?
>>>>
>>>> In particular it seems wrong to specify that ruby is under
>>>> /usr/local/bin, even if 2.3.0 is required.
>>>>
>>>> I see that Gemfile does not support ruby version ranges (Why??), but
>>>> one can use the following work-round:
>>>>
>>>> raise 'Ruby version must be at least 2.0' unless  RUBY_VERSION.to_f >= 2.0

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