When installing via homebrew it downloads version 2.28.3 instead of the latest version

[Daniel-Griffiths]

New Issue Checklist

• Updated fastlane to the latest version
• I read the Contribution Guidelines
• I read docs.fastlane.tools
• I searched for existing GitHub issues

Issue Description

When installing fastlane via homebrew using brew cask install fastlane it always downloads version 2.28.3

Installing via ruby gems using the command sudo gem install fastlane -NV it correctly installs the latest version.

Command executed

brew cask install fastlane

My OS is Mac OS Catalina

✅ fastlane environment ✅

Stack

Key	Value
OS	10.15
Ruby	2.2.4
Bundler?	false
Git	git version 2.21.0 (Apple Git-122)
Installation Source	~/.fastlane/bin/bundle/bin/fastlane
Host	Mac OS X 10.15 (19A583)
Ruby Lib Dir	~/.fastlane/bin/bundle/lib
OpenSSL Version	OpenSSL 1.0.2g 1 Mar 2016
Is contained	false
Is homebrew	true
Is installed via Fabric.app	false
Xcode Path	/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/
Xcode Version	11.1

System Locale

Variable	Value
LANG	en_US.UTF-8	✅
LC_ALL	en_US.UTF-8	✅
LANGUAGE	en_US.UTF-8	✅

fastlane files:

No Fastfile found

No Appfile found

fastlane gems

Gem	Version	Update-Status
fastlane	2.28.3	💥 Check failed

Loaded fastlane plugins:

No plugins Loaded

Loaded gems

Gem	Version
slack-notifier	1.5.1
atomos	0.1.3
CFPropertyList	2.3.5
claide	1.0.3
colored2	3.1.2
nanaimo	0.2.6
xcodeproj	1.12.0
rouge	2.0.7
xcpretty	0.3.0
terminal-notifier	1.7.1
unicode-display_width	1.1.3
terminal-table	1.7.3
plist	3.2.0
public_suffix	2.0.5
addressable	2.5.1
multipart-post	2.0.0
word_wrap	1.0.0
tty-screen	0.5.0
babosa	1.0.2
colored	1.2
highline	1.7.8
commander-fastlane	4.4.6
excon	0.55.0
faraday	0.12.1
unf_ext	0.0.7.4
unf	0.1.4
domain_name	0.5.20170404
http-cookie	1.0.3
faraday-cookie_jar	0.0.6
fastimage	2.1.0
gh_inspector	1.1.3
uber	0.0.15
representable	2.3.0
retriable	2.1.0
mime-types-data	3.2016.0521
mime-types	3.1
hurley	0.2
little-plugger	1.1.4
multi_json	1.12.1
logging	2.2.2
jwt	1.5.6
memoist	0.16.0
os	0.9.6
signet	0.7.3
googleauth	0.5.1
httpclient	2.8.3
google-api-client	0.9.28
json	1.8.1
mini_magick	4.5.1
multi_xml	0.6.0
rubyzip	1.3.0
security	0.1.3
xcpretty-travis-formatter	0.0.4
dotenv	2.2.0
bundler	1.14.6
faraday_middleware	0.11.0.1

generated on: 2019-10-10

[regularberry]

Thanks for this. I couldn't figure out why my fresh install of fastlane was failing with the error: [!] undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass

But installing from ruby gems instead of brew made it work 👍

[janpio]

cc @joshdholtz

[garylai]

I think it is because one of the dependencies fails to update:

ERROR:  Error installing fastlane:
	signet requires Ruby version >= 2.4.0.

The brew package seems to be still using ruby 2.2?

[joypatel04]

@joshdholtz @janpio Any update on this issue?

[joshdholtz]

Looking into! Will update when I have more info

[nickrnet]

@joshdholtz Here's what I'm getting on my up-to-date Mojave machine.
brew-cask-install-fastlane.txt

[algera]

Here is what I am using as a temporary workaround while this Homebrew installation issue is being considered.

Note: I could not install via gems b/c of the organization of Xcode 11 w/ Mojave. In order to correct that setup and get on Fastlane 2.134.0. If you are using a later version of MacOS, consider updating the command line tools executable package command.

Trash existing homebrew installation

brew cask uninstall fastlane

Reinstall header files on Mac

sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
xcode-select --install
sudo xcodebuild -license accept
open /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages/macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14.pkg

Now update Ruby to v2.6.5 as Ruby v2.3 (default on Mojave) will not work with Fastlane

brew update
brew install ruby-build
brew install rbenv
rbenv install 2.6.5
rbenv global 2.6.5
export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/shims:$PATH"
sudo gem install fastlane -NV

[Katsz]

Due to enormous amount of people used to install all the things via homebrew maybe we should just prune all fastlane versions <= 2.28 from it?
I don't think there is a single person in the wild that uses 2.28 consciously.

[Larusso]

@Katsz How do you want to do that. It's an unversioned cask. It downloads a zip file from this unversioned URL https://fastlane.tools/fastlane.zip

[joshdholtz]

Heyyyy 👋 I'm currently working on a PR for this!

Problem

• Packaged fastlane used Ruby 2.2 which is too old for some fastlane dependencies and causes installation issues leading to packaged fastlane installed version 2.28.3
• Packaged fastlane can also only be built/repackaged on OSX 10.1

Solution

• Build new packaged fastlane with Ruby 2.4 on Catalina
• Ruby will also be built on the during the installation process (if not already installed)
  • This makes packaged fastlane smaller but the first install longer

We are still undergoing some testing but my goal is to get it released next week 🤞 If anybody is willing to help test this please let me know!

[Katsz]

@Larusso my bad, wasn't aware fastlane is cask'ed

[Larusso]

@joshdholtz I tried it out and it failed for me. With the changes you propose you should also think about moving the whole thing into a brew formular. Because installing ruby etc during installation time is not really what brew cask is for.

[joshdholtz]

@Larusso I'll look into! I'm not a fan of my changes I made with install Ruby but it "works" 😬 I'll look into this 😊

[joypatel04]

@joshdholtz Will your changes work on macOS Mojave?

I am still running on Mojave to avoid issues (If there is any) running with React-native.

[joshdholtz]

Yup yup! It will 😊 I have both a Catalina and Mojave machine that I’m testing this on

[nickrnet]

Any updates on this? I'm needing to get 2.136 or greater because of #14573

[chrisvire]

Our product uses fastlane and depends on installing fastlane via https://fastlane.tools/fastlane.zip. Will that distribution mechanism be updated so that it can be updated to latest fastlane instead of being stuck on 2.28.3? Just an FYI that this isn't limited to homebrew.

[janpio]

Thanks for this context @chrisvire, @joshdholtz is working on fixing this.

[Larusso]

For anyone not able to wait for the official fix. I added some fixes/customization to the pull request from @joshdholtz. Some of the changes are tailored for my needs and preferences.
You can find the diff here:
wooga/packaged-fastlane@6e591d7

In short:

• removed all prompts (I have no user input at install time)
• update the shim script so I can symlink the file to /usr/local/bin (I did this for my custom cask file)
• removed the brew openssl installation since ruby-build will download the correct openssl version (I have no idea why some random version from brew is the preferred solution?)
• changed the install path to install to the current dir (I did this for my custom cask file and I don't like programs in the home directory)

I adjusted my custom cask file which can be found here:
https://github.com/wooga/homebrew-tools/blob/master/Casks/fastlane.rb

I'm running with this fix the last couple of days and everything works so far for me.
I hope this might be of help for anyone.

[joshdholtz]

@Larusso That is great! Do you mind making a PR into my PR for that? That would be so 💯

[Larusso]

@joshdholtz I'll take it without my custom modifications with the install path?

[joshdholtz]

@joshdholtz Yeah yeah, sorry! I should have mentioned that. Not enough coffee yet 🙃 I appreciate all your testing on this and want to make sure that you get credit for your changes/time as well. I got sidetracked with some other fixes that needed to get made but this is now number 1 priority

[joshdholtz]

Hey, everyone! This is all fixed now 😊

So...

1. The brew cask install fastlane is no longer a thing
2. The homebrew install of fastlane has been migrated to a formula which means:
   • Uninstall cask brew cask uninstall fastlane
   • Remove any fastlane cask stuff from you path (.bash_profile, .bashrc, .zshrc, etc)
3. Run brew install fastlane
   • This depends on homebrew version of openssl and ruby 2.5 so things should be 💯 and install quickly
   • This new method won't autoupdate (which was a bit confusing, IMO) so you will need to run brew upgrade fastlane when new versions drop

This is ready to go as of this morning 😊 There will be official announcements, docs, and migration notes coming out later 💪

Sorry about this taking so long 😇 It was quite an adventure.

Ping me if anybody has any questions!

[chrisvire]

@joshdholtz Does this also fix installing using https://fastlane.tools/fastlane.zip?

Our software uses fastlane and downloads from that url.

[joshdholtz]

@chrisvire That zip file is actually going to be removed here soon 😇 That was the cause of all the problem because it was being bundled with an old version of Ruby and the way that that was designed does not work well with newer versions of Ruby. I'm not exactly sure how your systems work but I would recommend using brew install fastlane or pulling down the fastlane from source and running gem build fastlane.gemspec and installing the gem that that builds.

[chrisvire]

We can’t require a dependency on homebrew. We need the zip distribution that includes ruby.

[patelhiren]

@joshdholtz Running brew install fastlane installed the latest available version. However running a lane that uses the gym command was failing. Turned out xcpretty was not installed via the brew command. I manually installed via sudo gem install xcpretty. The error went away after that. Anyway to automate the xcpretty install when installed via homebrew?