Are there any disadvantages to using locomotive

Rails
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Hi:

I had some issues and so switched to locomotive. I find it awesome. 1
click and its done.

My question - what disadvantages are there, if any? What do I lose by
using such a convenient solution.

speculation as well as facts are welcome but please define which you
are putting forwards.

Thanks in advance,

bruce

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Bruce

cons:

(skip to 2/ it you don’t need to deploy on MacOS).

1/ As Locomotive includes Ruby, you are not suffering from MacOS known
Ruby trouble.
=> if you must deploy to MacOS, you must fix those problem separately,
and test your app again on this config to make sure everything is OK.

2/Locomotive uses ‘bundled’ versions of Rails
=> when a new version of Rails is available, you must wait for the
author to bundle it, before you can use it.
Note: I’ve never tried to use EdgeRails with Locomotive, so I can’t say
if there is an alternative (meaning: if this is really a limitation)

Alain

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Thank you, Alain.

Yes, I am on MacOS (should have mentioned that). I am delighted if
the ‘author bundling’ issue is all you are aware of. I don’t want
to be THAT bleeding edge as I find it rather painful.

Good to know - thanks.

bruce

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Alain R. wrote:

2/Locomotive uses ‘bundled’ versions of Rails
=> when a new version of Rails is available, you must wait for the
author to bundle it, before you can use it.

You can update Locomotive’s gems in the usual way, if you open a
Terminal via Locomotive (so the path gets set up correctly) and do the
update from there.

regards

Justin

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Justin F. wrote:

You can update Locomotive’s gems in the usual way, if you open a

So, if I just type
rake freeze_edge

in the terminal, I’m also using EdgeRails, am I’nt?

Alain

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Alain R. wrote:

Justin F. wrote:

You can update Locomotive’s gems in the usual way, if you open a

So, if I just type
rake freeze_edge

in the terminal, I’m also using EdgeRails, am I’nt?

Hi, Alain - you would have to try this; I have only been using gems.

regards

Justin

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So, if I just type
rake freeze_edge
in the terminal, I’m also using EdgeRails, am I’nt?

Hi, Alain - you would have to try this; I have only been using
gems.

I made a quick try with a fresh app, and got a "routing error"

message in the default Rails homepage, when trying to display my config.
I haven’t had the time to investigate.

Alain

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The gem upgrade does indeed work. (althrough I got the default routing
error as well, but the rest of my app works fine). I’m still using
locomotive 0.13.3 (i think) but have been using rails 0.14.x/1.0.0 for
quite some time now. Apps work fine, as well as any gem updates.

And I managed to move all the path stuff from the locomotive specific
launch to my generic bash environment which I just run with the OS X
terminal program.

In any case, works fine, never had any issues on my end.

-Nick