Arel version dependency breaks gems

[steveklabnik]

In f200383, arel's version got bumped. But since 6.0 hasn't been released yet, any gem that tries to integration test against Rails master straight-up fails:

https://travis-ci.org/steveklabnik/active_model_serializers/jobs/29204778

https://travis-ci.org/drapergem/draper/jobs/29070352

etc.

This means that getting early bug reports about stuff in master that breaks gems that depend on Rails won't happen.

[seuros]

If you trying against rails master, add the arel from master too. Something like i did here.

[zzak]

What @seuros said, if you want to test rails master make sure you include arel master too, just like we are doing.

[steveklabnik]

This is a transitive dependency though. Awkward.

[matthewd]

Awkward indeed... but I think it's really in bundler's problem-space: some way for us to say "hey, if you're pulling us from git, and you don't have a better idea, you might want to try as a source for arel".

The problems (and potential security implications) of such a scheme are multitudinous, and likely why it's not supported.

/ping @indirect in case he has any brilliant suggestions ☺️

[indirect]

Some options: combine repos, modify the bootstrap script to check out arel, create a separate Gemfile for rails master, release prerelease gems every time there's a breaking dependency change, put it in the readme in big letters.

There's no magical automatic solution to breaking dependency changes, but you can solve them by solving them. :P

On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Matthew Draper notifications@github.com
wrote:

Awkward indeed... but I think it's really in bundler's problem-space: some way for us to say "hey, if you're pulling us from git, and you don't have a better idea, you might want to try as a source for arel".
The problems (and potential security implications) of such a scheme are multitudinous, and likely why it's not supported.

/ping @indirect in case he has any brilliant suggestions ☺️

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[sgrif]

you can solve them by solving them.

[indirect]