# (edge nubie q) what revision of edge rails to use? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [September 22, 2006, 1:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/edge-nubie-q-what-revision-of-edge-rails-to-use/69624 "2006-09-22T13:13:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adammontgomery)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 1:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/edge-nubie-q-what-revision-of-edge-rails-to-use/69624/1 "2006-09-22T13:13:35Z")
I have just moved to the edge. No more old gem installed rails for me. Ok this brings me to my new question. Ive just used freeze to install edge rails revision 5166. Is this a common practise, to install the latest version? Im considering stability, do edge users tend to use a slightly older revision eg non bleading edge ? How do you find out the best version to install ? ---
**Author:** ![adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adammontgomery)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/edge-nubie-q-what-revision-of-edge-rails-to-use/69624/2 "2006-09-22T16:20:59Z")
Adam M. wrote: > I have just moved to the edge. No more old gem installed > rails for me. > > Ok this brings me to my new question. Ive just used freeze to install > edge rails revision 5166. Is this a common practise, to install the > latest > version? > > Im considering stability, do edge users tend to use a slightly > older revision eg non bleading edge ? > > How do you find out the best version to install ? If you need stability, stick with the gems. Edge is, almost by definition, bleeding. A. ---
**Author:** ![adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adammontgomery)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 11:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/edge-nubie-q-what-revision-of-edge-rails-to-use/69624/3 "2006-09-22T23:15:31Z")
Alan F. wrote: > Adam M. wrote: > > > I have just moved to the edge. No more old gem installed > > rails for me. > > > > Ok this brings me to my new question. Ive just used freeze to install > > edge rails revision 5166. Is this a common practise, to install the > > latest > > version? > > > > Im considering stability, do edge users tend to use a slightly > > older revision eg non bleading edge ? > > > > How do you find out the best version to install ? > > If you need stability, stick with the gems. Edge is, almost by > definition, bleeding. > > A. I was under the impression that bleeding edge was the lastest release while a few versions back was just considered edge. Sorry for the semantics, i just want to understand this. I have to use edge rails to get the restful features. I tried and failed to get the simply\_restful plugin to work. It kept throwing errors about initialisation when i tried to use the generators or start the server. So if i am to ue edge rails, what version is best for just the restful features. Basically i would like to know if those who need edge rails to be as stable as possible, what version do they use and what do they base that decision on ? adam ---
**Author:** ![adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adammontgomery)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 12:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/edge-nubie-q-what-revision-of-edge-rails-to-use/69624/4 "2006-09-23T00:26:50Z")
Ezra Z. wrote: > On Sep 22, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Adam M. wrote: > > > > > version? > > > > So if i am to ue edge rails, what version is best for just the restful > > features. > > > > Basically i would like to know if those who need edge rails to be as > > stable as possible, what version do they use and what do they base > > that > > decision on ? > > > > adam > > If you are going to use edge rails, you pretty much just do rake > rails:freeze:edge and your done. It will just grab the latest trunk > from the rails svn repo. I am running on edge frozen two days ago. > Usually you can just freeze edge and then if it all works for you , > you just leave it frozen until you need to upgrade it to get a new > feature. thanks for the reply. One last question, is there a place that lists revision milestones. eg this function added at this date ? > -Ezra ---
**Author:** ![adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adammontgomery)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/edge-nubie-q-what-revision-of-edge-rails-to-use/69624/5 "2006-09-22T23:40:33Z")
On Sep 22, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Adam M. wrote: > > > version? > > So if i am to ue edge rails, what version is best for just the restful > features. > > Basically i would like to know if those who need edge rails to be as > stable as possible, what version do they use and what do they base > that > decision on ? > > adam ``` If you are going to use edge rails, you pretty much just do rake ``` rails:freeze:edge and your done. It will just grab the latest trunk from the rails svn repo. I am running on edge frozen two days ago. Usually you can just freeze edge and then if it all works for you , you just leave it frozen until you need to upgrade it to get a new feature. -Ezra ---
**Author:** ![adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adammontgomery)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/edge-nubie-q-what-revision-of-edge-rails-to-use/69624/6 "2006-09-24T17:52:01Z")
Adam M. wrote: > > > Basically i would like to know if those who need edge rails to be as > > > Usually you can just freeze edge and then if it all works for you , You can subscribe to the Trac RSS feed for revisions to trunk([http://dev.rubyonrails.org/log/trunk?limit=100&mode=stop\_on\_copy&format=rss](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/log/trunk?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss)). Also work subscribing to Ryan’s Scraps ([Page not found](http://feeds.feedburner.com/RyansScraps)) – he’s pretty hot on describing latest edge features.