[Rails] Rails + TextDrive + Gem question

[Justin French]

On 18/02/2005, at 9:52 AM, Joe Van Dyk wrote:

> So, I'm using TextDrive hosting.  I did a gem install for my rails 
> application.
>
> How should I do upgrades?  And am I at risk if TextDrive does an
> upgrade of their gems?

Yes, we do update to the latest and greatest Rails version all the 
time.  The answer is to lock your application to a certain 
Rails/AR/AM/AP version in environment.rb.

eg:

require_gem 'activerecord', '= 1.6.0'
require_gem 'actionpack', '= 1.4.0'
require_gem 'actionmailer', '= 0.6.1'
require_gem 'rails', '= 0.9.5'

When you've locally tested the new Rails version and are ready for the 
new gem live, just change environment.rb as needed.

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Justin French, Indent.com.au/TextDrive
justin.french at indent.com.au
Web Application Development & Graphic Design