Thank you Walter. On Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 6:52:03 PM UTC-5, Walter Lee Davis wrote: > > > > On Jan 13, 2019, at 4:29 PM, braini...@gmail.com <javascript:> wrote: > > I do not have an app on the machine yet. I just installed rails 4.1 and I > wanted to do an incremental upgrade prior to placing the preexisting app on > the machine. > > > Any modern Rails app will use bundler, and therefore have a Gemfile that > specifies which version of Rails it expects. If you cd into the directory > with the application, and type `bundle install`, then the right version of > Rails and all dependencies will be installed. > > Then, assuming your tests pass, you can create a new git branch, edit the > Gemfile to point to a newer version of Rails, and run `bundle update > rails`. That will give you the new Rails and any dependencies that were > changed by the update. > > You then have a coin-flip chance that the app will pass its tests, > depending on how large a change you made. > > For a start on fixing the differences, you can then run `rake > rails:upgrade` or `rails app:upgrade`, depending on which version of Rails > you’ve moved to, and that will perform all sorts of automated fixes. It > will probably also break some things, too. > > It’s really worthwhile to read the Rails Guide on upgrading. It covers > best practices and has lots of helpful hints to debug the changes. > > Walter > > > > > On Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 6:24:22 PM UTC-5, Hassan Schroeder wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 1:42 PM <braini...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Can you assist me with the syntax to incrementally upgrade rails 4.1 to >> 4.2? >> >> I'm not sure what "syntax" is in this context, but upgrading is just a >> matter of editing your project Gemfile and running `bundle update`. >> >> And of course fixing deprecation warnings and errors and whatnot 😀 >> >> -- >> Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.s...@gmail.com >> twitter: @hassan >> Consulting Availability : Silicon Valley or remote >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-ta...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonra...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/4e235088-cb19-4d2e-a154-05bbc7e6bdb3%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/4e235088-cb19-4d2e-a154-05bbc7e6bdb3%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > >
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