Beginner Q: Keeping the Ruby on Rails platform up to date

Rails
#1

Hello, I recently installed the ruby on rails framework from this
tutorial:
http://www.hivelogic.com/narrative/articles/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger

So, I installed:

Ruby on Rails 1.1
Ruby 1.8.4
LightTPD 1.4.13
FastCGI 2.4.0
RubyGems 0.9.0
Readline 5.1
PCRE 6.6
FastCGI and MySQL bindings

I figured out how to keep my ruby on rails up to date by using the
command “gem update rails --include-dependencies”, but what about all
the other stuff? Should I keep checking their website to see if updates
are available and then compiling, installiing them? Or is there a
quicker command line way to keep all the stuff up to date? Maybe a
similar command like the one ruby on rails has.

Also, any other tips regarding the maintanance of Ruby on Rails would be
much appricated!

Thanks in advance!

#2

Hi Kristen,

If you really need to keep up to date, maybe you should install
everything using MacPorts[1]

There is an article[2] describing how to ‘sandbox’ Rails with MacPort
in order to have multiple version of your pre-requisites installed.
The update process after that is pretty much a simple command, ‘sudo
port upgrade installed’.

You can do many more things with MacPorts, but you will be hard
pressed to find documentation for it. Here[3] is the manual from when
it was called DarwinPorts.

[1] http://www.macports.org
[2] http://blog.duncandavidson.com/2006/04/sandboxing_rail.html
[3] http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/docs/ch01s04.html

-christos

#3

Christos Z. wrote:

[1] http://www.macports.org
[2] http://blog.duncandavidson.com/2006/04/sandboxing_rail.html
[3] http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/docs/ch01s04.html

-christos

Thank you very much, I’ll take a look at those links.