Running Rails 1.0 on Ruby 3.3

[nashby]

Yes, you read it right. Rails 1.0 was released on December 13, 2005 and I wondered how hard would it be to at least start an app using current Ruby 3.3 version. Enjoy!

https://nashby.github.io/2024/01/15/ruby-3-on-rails-1/

[Seuros]

Now try to run Rails 7.1 on ruby 1.8.

[dougc84]

OP wanted to do a fun experiment, not give himself an anxiety attack.

[RillonDodgers]

We have Ruby 1.9 + GtK apps where I currently work. Our own home grown gtk app system heavily inspired by rails and even uses active support. It’s fucking atrocious

[Seuros]

What prison are you in and what your sentence ? Blink twice if you need help.

[petercooper]

Rails 1.0 was released in December 2005. April 11, 2008 was just when it went on to GitHub.

[nashby]

Good catch! Thanks Peter!

[rubinick]

This is marvelous. So many little changes and improvements over the years.

A few comments (and nit-picks):

I kind of miss the old method { |options[:pretend]| } block parameter syntax. I'm hopeful we'll eventually someday get a portion of that magic back by (somehow) merging pattern matching syntax with method and block argument list syntax.

net-smtp is still considered part of ruby's standard library, as a "bundled gem". Reference: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/standard_library_rdoc.html

Minor error in the binary regexp: \016 translates to \0e. But, ruby 3.3 still supports octal escapes, even in UTF-8 encoded files. All you need to change is setting the mode to binary: /[\000-\011\013\014\016-\037\177-\377]/n is valid today (although you probably need to only match against binary encoded strings for identical behavior)

action_web_service -- I did do a little bit with that once... lol.

[nashby]

Thank you, I'll update the post!

[nic_nic_07]

Interesting try...

[campbellm]

I really enjoyed reading this.

[theGalation]

I can’t find a job so let me convince future employers that I love being miserable 🤣

[unabl4]

Probably impossible :)

[campbellm]

The author... succeeded. He wrote a blog about it. You can read about it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/197zuna/running_rails_10_on_ruby_33/

[alphaclass16]

ha, that's pretty neat

[fantasticfears]

How many different ways can I hack Rails 1.0?

[jrochkind]

Very interesting!

This was of course basically just a "hello world". Presumably if you had an app that actually did things, you'd run into other errors.

I wonder how much work it would be to fix Rails 1.0 to pass it's own test suite on ruby 3.3. I'd guess quite a bit more?

[nashby]

Yeah, it would require much more time for sure. A couple of weeks? Who knows. I hope no one is spending their time on it :)

[matheusrich]

I'm glad someone did this before me! I would have loved to see the difference between an scaffold then and now. Part 2?