# 2.2.2 super simple upgrade question

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2-2-2-super-simple-upgrade-question/156458>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 28, 2008, 4:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2-2-2-super-simple-upgrade-question/156458 "2008-12-28T04:52:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![indigoi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@indigoi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/indigoi)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 4:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2-2-2-super-simple-upgrade-question/156458/1 "2008-12-28T04:52:52Z")

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I’ve been riding rails since 1.2 and had no problems (that i couldn’t  
get over) upgrading. Since i’ve installed rails 2.2.2 (verified via gem  
list, and rails -v) and I change my environment.rb to read

RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION = ‘2.2.2’

yet when i run script/server it still starts up in 2.1.0

=\> Rails 2.1.0 application starting on [http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000)

Am I missing something??

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**Author:** ![indigoi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@indigoi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/indigoi)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 5:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2-2-2-super-simple-upgrade-question/156458/2 "2008-12-28T05:01:11Z")

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On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Richard S. \<  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid\> wrote:

> =\> Rails 2.1.0 application starting on [http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000)
> 
> ## Am I missing something??
> 
> Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/).

Hi, did you update the configuration files by running ‘rake  
rails:update’ in  
the root of your rails application? Also,  
what version of ruby gems are you using (gem -v)?

-Conrad

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**Author:** ![indigoi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@indigoi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/indigoi)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 5:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2-2-2-super-simple-upgrade-question/156458/3 "2008-12-28T05:14:35Z")

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> Hi, did you update the configuration files by running ‘rake  
> rails:update’ in  
> the root of your rails application? Also,  
> what version of ruby gems are you using (gem -v)?
> 
> -Conrad

not sure if rake rails:update did anything but here’s the output of my  
bash

166:slangasaurus richard$ rake rails:update  
(in /Users/richardschneeman/Documents/AptanaStudio/slangasaurus)  
166:slangasaurus richard$ gem -v  
1.3.1

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**Author:** ![indigoi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@indigoi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/indigoi)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 5:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2-2-2-super-simple-upgrade-question/156458/4 "2008-12-28T05:20:28Z")

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On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Richard S. \<  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid\> wrote:

> 166:slangasaurus richard$ rake rails:update  
> (in /Users/richardschneeman/Documents/AptanaStudio/slangasaurus)  
> 166:slangasaurus richard$ gem -v  
> 1.3.1

Did you edit the RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION in the correct environment.rb?

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**Author:** ![indigoi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@indigoi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/indigoi)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 5:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2-2-2-super-simple-upgrade-question/156458/5 "2008-12-28T05:30:16Z")

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> Did you edit the RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION in the correct environment.rb?

here is my entire environment.rb file…[http://pastie.org/347697](http://pastie.org/347697)

slangasaurus/config/environment.rb

RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION = ‘2.2.2’ unless defined? RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION

i’ve also tried just editing down to " RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION = ‘2.2.2’ "

166:slangasaurus richardschneeman$ rails -v  
Rails 2.2.2

Nothing seems to affect the version that my script/server runs on…

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**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 5:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2-2-2-super-simple-upgrade-question/156458/6 "2008-12-28T05:55:49Z")

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richard-macbook-pro:slangasaurus richard$ sudo gem install rails  
Successfully installed rails-2.2.2  
1 gem installed  
richard-macbook-pro:slangasaurus richard$ script/server  
=\> Booting Mongrel (use ‘script/server webrick’ to force WEBrick)  
=\> Rails 2.1.0 application starting on [http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000)  
=\> Call with -d to detach  
=\> Ctrl-C to shutdown server  
\*\* Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3000  
\*\* Starting Rails with development environment…  
\*\* Rails loaded.  
\*\* Loading any Rails specific GemPlugins  
\*\* Signals ready. TERM =\> stop. USR2 =\> restart. INT =\> stop (no  
restart).  
\*\* Rails signals registered. HUP =\> reload (without restart). It might  
not work well.  
\*\* Mongrel 1.1.5 available at 0.0.0.0:3000  
\*\* Use CTRL-C to stop.

Maybe not so simple of a question after all…

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**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 5:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2-2-2-super-simple-upgrade-question/156458/7 "2008-12-28T05:49:42Z")

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On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Richard S. \<  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid\> wrote:

> i’ve also tried just editing down to " RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION = ‘2.2.2’ "
> 
> 166:slangasaurus richardschneeman$ rails -v  
> Rails 2.2.2
> 
> Nothing seems to affect the version that my script/server runs on…

Hi, I had a similar issue where I performed the following action to  
resolve  
the problem:

sudo gem install rails

-Conrad

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**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 6:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2-2-2-super-simple-upgrade-question/156458/8 "2008-12-28T06:00:48Z")

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On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Richard S. \<  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid\> wrote:

> \*\* Starting Rails with development environment…  
> \*\* Rails loaded.  
> \*\* Loading any Rails specific GemPlugins  
> \*\* Signals ready. TERM =\> stop. USR2 =\> restart. INT =\> stop (no  
> restart).  
> \*\* Rails signals registered. HUP =\> reload (without restart). It might  
> not work well.  
> \*\* Mongrel 1.1.5 available at 0.0.0.0:3000  
> \*\* Use CTRL-C to stop.

Do you have multiple versions on rails installed (i.e. gem list)? Or do  
you  
have a version of rails installed in vendor/rails?

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**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 6:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2-2-2-super-simple-upgrade-question/156458/9 "2008-12-28T06:24:06Z")

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WOW, you’re fking awesome. I don’t know how i missed that. Thanks a  
bunch, i knew it was something small. I had my rails version frozen, all  
i had to do was delete the folder in under vendor. Thanks abunch!!
