Problems with dependency of the new and old jquery-rails and jquery-ui-rails

[pencilcheck]

activeadmin 0.6 depends on jquery-rails > 1.0.0 because at that time I believe they didn't foresee the change that refactor jquery-ui out into its own gem, but ironically activeadmin-mongoid depends on activeadmin ~> 0.6 and at the same time jquery-rails >= 3.0.0 and jquery-ui-rails >= 4.0.0, so when I run rails it will keep telling me that jquery-ui file is not found because activeadmin-0.6 is still using the old syntax to include jquery-ui and I can't include two versions of jquery-rails at the same time...

This issue has been giving me a lot of headaches, because if I upgrade to activeadmin 0.6.1 then formtastics will have problem with mongoid saying that method reflections is not found for Whatever:Class and the author of formtastics explicitly stated that he is not interested in supporting mongo db as seen in this issue (formtastic/formtastic#286).

So I'm stuck between this dependency hell, and I can't get out of it. And please don't tell me to upgrade to rails 4 (using rails 3.2.13 currently).

So please have mercy and remove that jquery-rails version dependency for activeadmin-mongoid or have a version to support older jquery-rails but not too archiac thanks (the last version is 0.0.2 which is over 1 year old).

[pencilcheck]

I had a workaround by giving up the new jquery and new activeadmin by reverting back to where I was - activeadmin-mongoid 0.2.0 and activeadmin 0.6.0 and jquery-rails < 3.0.0

As I overlooked that 0.2.0 didn't require the latest jquery-rails that's how I escape this cycle.

Note to self: never hit bundle update without a week of free time ahead of you.

However I still want to take this opportunity to send a message to the owner that the commit fffdcfb is a little bit non sensible and should be reverted, since activeadmin is already having its own dependencies on jquery-rails, don't do double dependencies...

[alepore]

Agree, there's some confusion with gems versions and dependencies.
Try with this Gemfile:

# ...
gem 'jquery-ui-rails'
gem 'activeadmin-mongoid', github: 'elia/activeadmin-mongoid'

and this assets/javascripts/active_admin.js

//= require jquery
//= require jquery.ui.all
//= require jquery_ujs

//= require active_admin/application

[elia]

@pencilcheck reverting the commit, rails4 support along with newer jquery-rails dep is on branch rails4 (surprisingly)

sorry for the delay 🐸

[elia]

@pencilcheck what's the last known good version of formtastic?
It would probably be a good idea to lock its versions too.

[pencilcheck]

I don't know. I just use whatever formtastic activeadmin 0.6 depends on as 0.6.1 has a version of formtastic with the issues I mentioned.

[renevall]

Yeah im getting the same issue, @elia did you update this to one of the gems? gem 0.3.0 and 0.2.0 are giving me the same error.

Thanks

[elia]

@ResidentBio @pencilcheck can you send me the problematic Gemfile.lock, I tried to reproduce but to no avail

[renevall]

I end up forcing the Active Admin 0.6.0 by specifying the version on my gemfile. Since the code says ~>'0.6.0' I think it is chosing the 0.6.1 by default.

I even tried a gems wipe and I saw 0.6.1 been downloaded.

Here is the Gemlock at omne point

activeadmin (0.6.1)
  arbre (~> 1.0)
  bourbon (>= 1.0.0, < 4)
  devise (>= 1.5.4, < 4)
  formtastic (~> 2.0)
  inherited_resources (~> 1.3)
  jquery-rails (>= 1.0.0, < 3)
  kaminari (~> 0.13)
  meta_search (~> 1.0)
  rails (>= 3.0.0, < 4)
  sass (~> 3.1)
activeadmin-mongoid (0.2.0)
  activeadmin (~> 0.6)
  meta_search (>= 1.1.0.pre)
  mongoid (~> 3.0)
  sass-rails (~> 3.1, >= 3.1.4)

[elia]

@ResidentBio I'm interested in the version of formtastic, can tell me the result of bundle show formtastic.

[alepore]

Hope it helps, i'm fine with this Gemfile.lock https://gist.github.com/alepore/6850998

[elia]

Thanks @alepore my plan is to add formtastic 2.2.1, activeadmin 0.6.1 and rails 3.2.x as activeadmin-mongoid explicit dependencies, that should sort out many bundling and compatibilities problems