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this article helped me when updating: http://blog.insoshi.com/2008/07/03/a-rails-21-case-study-upgrading-the-insoshi-social-networking-platform/ Cheers On 26 Sep., 09:18, Frederick Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 26, 12:54 am, lunaclaire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Finally about to make the move from 1.2.6 to 2.? and am curious about > > strategy... > > > I've looked at a bunch of postings across the web about upgrading, but > > many of them seem to be written back when 2.0 was only a RC and it > > seems like this has been a changing picture throughout the year (one > > of the reasons I've waited). > > > Many of the postings in this group from earlier in the year seem to > > point to lots of problems in making the move as well and, so, I ask > > some questions: > > > 1) which version rails is the one to move to (most stable and ready)? > > I would go straight to the latest stable (ie 2.1.1). The one caveat to > that is that it could be the case that some things were marked as > deprecated in 2.0 and then removed in 2.1. If you moved to 2.0 first > then you get the deprecation warnings rather than have stuff just > disappear. I doubt much stuff like that is out there though. > > > > > 2) when I update does the process leave old gems in place so that if I > > need to move back, it's "easy"? > > Yes > > > > > 3) if I want to try starting a new small app to learn the ropes vs. > > updating my big app, can I leave all the rails 1.2.6-oriented pieces > > in place and just set RAILS_GEM_VERSION to the 2.x version I'll be > > using? or is it messier in some way? > > Yes, you can quite easily have some 1.2.x apps and some 2.x apps > > Fred > > > > > I'm sure there's more I could be asking here and I'd be glad for this > > to start a thread discussing/revealing any issues and gotchas to watch > > out for. As you can see from my questions, I'm mostly trying to avoid > > really messing things up before I start. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---