Here I am with yet another proprietary EngineYard problem again. I simply clone an existing application that’s up and running fine and the new cloned environment doesn’t boot. Its giving me this error instead:

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/rails/gem_dependency.rb:224:in `specification’: undefined method `version_requirements=’ for # (NoMethodError)

Here’s a recent thread about the same issue:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=27868&group_id=126&atid=575

Looking into the differences in my ‘cloned’ environment and my actual environment and I see the gems list isn’t even the same. So basically Engine Yard’s clone command doesn’t actually clone the environment at all. It just took my old apps and tried to copy and paste everything onto a newly configured environment which obviously doesn’t work.

My original environment gems:

abstract (1.0.0)
actionmailer (2.3.5, 2.3.3, 2.2.2, 1.3.6)
actionpack (2.3.5, 2.3.3, 2.2.2, 1.13.6)
actionwebservice (1.2.6)
activerecord (2.3.5, 2.3.3, 2.2.2, 1.15.6)
activeresource (2.3.5, 2.3.3, 2.2.2)
activesupport (2.3.5, 2.3.3, 2.2.2, 1.4.4)
addressable (2.1.1)
aws-s3 (0.6.2)
builder (2.1.2)
daemons (1.0.10)
erubis (2.6.2)
eventmachine (0.12.6)
extlib (0.9.9)
eyrubygems (0.0.2)
facter (1.5.2)
fastercsv (1.5.1)
fastthread (1.0.7)
ferret (0.11.6)
gem_plugin (0.2.3)
hpricot (0.8.2, 0.8.1)
igrigorik-em-http-request (0.1.5)
json (1.1.3)
mime-types (1.16)
mixlib-cli (1.0.4)
mixlib-config (1.0.12)
mixlib-log (1.0.3)
mongrel (1.1.5.1)
mongrel_cluster (1.0.5)
ohai (0.2.0)
open4 (0.9.6)
rack (1.0.1, 0.4.0)
rails (2.3.5, 2.3.3, 2.2.2, 1.2.6)
rake (0.8.3)
rest-client (1.3.1, 0.9.2)
right_aws (1.10.0)
right_http_connection (1.2.4)
rmagick (2.8.0)
ruby-openid (2.1.2)
rubyforge (1.0.3)
sparklines (0.5.2)
stomp (1.0.6)
systemu (1.2.0)
will_paginate (2.3.12)
xml-simple (1.0.12)

And the ‘Cloned’ environment gems:

abstract (1.0.0)
actionmailer (2.3.3, 2.2.2, 1.3.6)
actionpack (2.3.3, 2.2.2, 1.13.6)
actionwebservice (1.2.6)
activerecord (2.3.3, 2.2.2, 1.15.6)
activeresource (2.3.3, 2.2.2)
activesupport (2.3.3, 2.2.2, 1.4.4)
addressable (2.1.1)
aws-s3 (0.6.2)
builder (2.1.2)
daemons (1.0.10)
erubis (2.6.2)
eventmachine (0.12.6)
extlib (0.9.9)
eyrubygems (0.0.2)
facter (1.5.2)
fastercsv (1.5.1)
fastthread (1.0.7)
ferret (0.11.6)
gem_plugin (0.2.3)
hpricot (0.8.2, 0.8.1)
igrigorik-em-http-request (0.1.5)
json (1.1.3)
mime-types (1.16)
mongrel (1.1.5.1)
mongrel_cluster (1.0.5)
ohai (0.2.0)
open4 (0.9.6)
rack (1.0.1, 0.4.0)
rails (2.3.3, 2.2.2, 1.2.6)
rake (0.8.3)
rest-client (0.9.2)
right_aws (1.10.0)
right_http_connection (1.2.4)
rmagick (2.8.0)
ruby-openid (2.1.2)
rubyforge (1.0.3)
sparklines (0.5.2)
stomp (1.0.6)
will_paginate (2.3.12)
xml-simple (1.0.12)

Clearly this new environment isn’t a ‘clone’ at all. You can’t just put feathers in your butt and call yourself a chicken. Don’t call this feature ‘clone’ when its really just recreating everything on a completely different setup if they’ve changed their default environment configuration. It should be called the ‘waste another 4 hours fixing our broken Engine Yard system’ feature. I think its a little more accurate.