This is a little of topic but I am posting it her for anyone else looking for the answer because I couldn’t find it when i needed it.

Back Story:

I am developing a little Rails Application and need to update Ruby Gems to deploy the app to Media Temple. No such luck – I did what i knew to do to upgrade and kept getting the following error “Expected Ruby version >= 1.8.6, is 1.8.5″

I Googled a lot but couldn’t find anyway to upgrade Ruby so after a few head bashes I contacted support and waited for the reply.

Unfortunately, the latest version of the Ruby Gems requires at least version 1.8.6 to run the updater and your container is currently running 1.8.5. Until our engineers are able to upgrade to core version of Ruby running within the containers you will be unable to update your Gem versions. Due to the shared nature of the (gs) Grid-Service we would be unable to upgrade the version running within your individual container, as the upgrade would affect all customers across the (gs) Grid-Service with Ruby containers. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Bit of a bummer, who knows how long that could take. Long story short, if you need a newer version of Ruby and you are hosted at Media Temple get a DV not the Grid Service. It is only $10 month more anyway (by the time you pay for the Grid service and the Rails Container) and more usefully, you get full root access.

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1. Upgrades complete

Tags: media temple, rails