Ruby Version 3.0.4 is undocumented and EOL

Bug Reports
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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website

Description of problem

Various build commands give me.

Your Ruby version is 3.4.1, but your Gemfile specified ~> 3.0.4

So two issues here:

  1. CONTRIBUTING.md does not specify the required version of Ruby.
  2. 3.0.x is EOL and should probably be migrated to a later supported version.

This is the message I get when installing 3.0.4:

WARNING: ruby-3.0.4 is past its end of life and is now unsupported.
It no longer receives bug fixes or critical security updates.

I’m not a Ruby developer normally, so I could be missing some subtleties here.

2

This might be best reported as an issue in the Github repo: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist

Also it might make a great first Pull Request if you want to go ahead and make the change in the Gemfile and Contributing doc yourself.

Thanks for reporting!

3

I’ll do that. I might also file a meta bug about filing bugs, since right now they pretty much say always start here. I can update the contributing instructions, but I’m enough of a Ruby novice I’m not sure I trust myself to upgrade the Ruby version. Might give it a spin anyway and see if anything breaks.

4

I can probably help you out if needed.

Note that the version is documented in the .ruby-version file at the root of the repo which is typically automatically detected by most Ruby version managers like rbenv or RVM: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/blob/main/.ruby-version