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Jan 25
4:36 pm

Hooray for new Rails!

Posted (January 25th, 2007 at 4:36 pm PST) by Terri

The packages are done, testing is complete, and I’m ready to roll out the new version of Rails - 1.2.1. Slowly, of course!

I will start slowly upgrading servers with Rails 1.2.1 starting Monday, January 29. There is one caveat to this.

If you are running Typo you have to freeze your Rails! If you’re afraid your Rails application will break with the new upgrade, and you’re not planning on tweaking it to use the new version candy, freeze your Rails. I tested Rails 1.2.1 and it breaks Typo. The developers recognize this and recommend freezing Rails (although they’ll be making adjustments very soon). Freeze your Rails! *GONG!* Freeze your Rails! *GONG!*

You can easily freeze your Rails by using SSH to login into your account. Go into the directory that has your Rails application (ie cd myrailsapp.com/). This is the directory that holds public, config, lib, etc. Then, run this command:

rake rails:freeze:gems

Rake will tell you what version it’s freezing your application to, and where. After that, you’ll be safe!

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 25th, 2007 at 4:36 pm and is filed under System Changes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

40 Responses to “Hooray for new Rails!”

January 25th, 2007 at 4:48 pmmdeering Says:

I’m sure you have a rollout plan but I would love to see rupee near the top of the list…

January 25th, 2007 at 5:38 pmAnonymous Coward Says:

And how can I unfreeze after that?

January 25th, 2007 at 8:28 pmwhy Says:

Nice work Terri!

January 25th, 2007 at 10:26 pmEric Says:

that’s nice, but how about wordpress 2.1?

January 26th, 2007 at 2:28 amJames Says:

Yes how do we safely unfreeze after that?

January 26th, 2007 at 5:45 amSomeguy Says:

Eric, as far as I know Wordpress doesn’t use Ruby, it uses PHP. See http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/

January 26th, 2007 at 7:28 amwhy Says:

It was Eric asking about Wordpress. James was asking about unfreezing.

rake rails:unfreeze

looks like it should do it based on this page - http://www.rubyonrailsblog.com/articles/2006/09/14/rails-rake-tasks-reference

January 27th, 2007 at 2:19 pmJordan Says:

Wow, I’m most definitely excited for this. I’ve been looking at other hosts that offer Rails support since I’ve been wanting to get into it, but now I’m not going to have to worry about that. Sunkist is dying for some rails lovin’ =p

February 3rd, 2007 at 12:07 pmDAN Says:

This is exciting. It’s nice to know DH is on moving forward with the latest upgrades.

I’d like request the RoR update to seltzer sooner rather than later.

: )

February 4th, 2007 at 9:36 pmdan Says:

So, is it done? I still 1,6,1 on Vanowen

February 4th, 2007 at 9:37 pmdan Says:

or 1.1.6 whatever

February 5th, 2007 at 11:53 amJustin Bishop Says:

I am still 1.1.6 on chalmers too. i’d really like to see this upgraded asap, i’m reading thru the new rails 1.2 book and i don’t want to bother setting it up locally. ;o)

February 5th, 2007 at 3:40 pmorange Says:

rails is at 1.2.2 now, but the changes seem to be minor.

changelog:
*1.2.2* (February 4th, 2007)
* Fix gem deprecation warnings, which also means depending on RubyGems 0.9.0+ [Chad Fowler]
* Require the dispatcher for Rails::Configuration#to_prepare. [Rick]

February 6th, 2007 at 9:52 amjosh Says:

Rails 1.2.2 is now available on rubyforge. It depends on Rubygems 0.9.2. Both Rails and Rubygems contain security fixes over the x.x.1 versions, and are definitely recommended upgrades.

February 6th, 2007 at 4:18 pmBenjamin Says:

How long does it take to role out the upgrade? I am on sunset and rails is still version 1.1.6.

February 7th, 2007 at 2:01 amMary Says:

What about PHP? When are we going to get MING support? Allowing PHP output to SWF would be a big improvement for my website. :) Everyone please go to the feature request page and request for PHP Ming, its been requested for 2 years now.

February 9th, 2007 at 4:18 pmLB Says:

Salt still has 1.1.6 of Rails:

salt:~> rails -v
Rails 1.1.6

Is that on the list to get to 1.2.2 soon?

thanks!

February 10th, 2007 at 12:03 pmzarni Says:

whopper:~> rails -v
Rails 1.1.6

whopper:~> ruby -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-linux]

when does whopper get 1.2.1?

February 11th, 2007 at 2:40 amrailsUserInSF Says:

When willl alvarado.dreamhost.com be upgraded to Version 1.2?

How is the whole upgrade process going?

eagerly looking forward to Rails 1.2 on my server….

February 11th, 2007 at 3:45 pmDAN Says:

This is a bit off topic but…

Also adding index.rhtml as a valid directory index page would be a blessing. I’d actually like to run ruby scripts in my html without rails sometimes.

To do this - in Apache conf .rhtml could be added as a file type (similar to the .php and index.php statements).

DAN

February 15th, 2007 at 12:41 pmMike Says:

Any ideas when marge was upgraded to 1.2.2? BlueCloth gem no longer seems to work and it’s killed my site until I can figure out some workaround,

Mike

February 17th, 2007 at 11:57 amPabloC Says:

holt still is 1.1.6

Any idea?

February 18th, 2007 at 9:12 amKenneth Says:

Since Rails 1.2.2 requires RubyGem 0.9.0 or better, are we going to ever see that upgrade? Right now, with Rails 1.2.2 and RubyGem 0.8.10 on Larchmont, I have to edit config.rb on every new app so it can find the old ‘require_gem’ method. An upgrade would be appropriate here.

February 19th, 2007 at 12:01 amFM Says:

hillhurst is still on Rails v1.1.6. What is going on? Was the upgrade halted?

February 22nd, 2007 at 3:46 amrequired Says:

[warhead]$ rails -v
/usr/bin/rails:17:Warning: require_gem is obsolete. Use gem instead.
Rails 1.2.2
so “slowly” meant 3 weeks. all’s well that ends well.

October 8th, 2007 at 3:01 amhepimizinblogu Says:

what about upgrade?

October 8th, 2007 at 3:02 amailemizinblogu Says:

it is really important for upgrade?

October 25th, 2007 at 10:23 pmBahamut Says:

Nice work dreamhost! Great Hosting!

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May 6th, 2008 at 3:48 pmAdsl Says:

You can easily freeze your Rails by using SSH to login into your account. Go into the directory that has your Rails application (ie cd myrailsapp.com/). This is the directory that holds public, config, lib, etc. Then, run this command:

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