thanks, guys... very helpful... into the breach!
On Sep 26, 1:36 am, "berlin 2.0" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Hi,
>
> this article helped me when updating:
>
> http://blog.insoshi.com/2008/07/03/a-rails-21-case-study-upgrading-th...
>
> 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.
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