How long do you think host providers will take to go to Rail

Rails
1

Hi,

Does anyone have previous experience here re how long most hosting
providers take to upgrade rails? (i.e. to v1.2 in this case)

I assume the standard approach is to resist upgrading until your hosting
provider has first (i.e. DEV environment == PROD environment)?

Tks

PS I’m using Dreamhost at the moment.

2

Does anyone have previous experience here re how long most hosting
providers take to upgrade rails? (i.e. to v1.2 in this case)

Depends on the hosting company …
WebFaction has already added support for Rails-1.2.1:
http://blog.webfaction.com/rails-1-2

Remi

WebFaction - Hosting for an agile web

3

You might want to consider adding your own gem library. I’ve got a few
sites
on DH and all of them have required various gems which aren’t installed.
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/RubyGems has a fairly good
explanation
of how to do it.

RSL

4

This is a good question. In the past, we’ve learned to be very mindful
of existing customers not locking their applications to specific
versions and have taken a “upgrade when asked” approach. Most of our
customers are savvy developers and know how to use the rake tasks to
include whatever version of Rails that they want in vendor/.

This is what we encourage customers that host with us at PLANET ARGON.

-Robby

5

You can use Rails 1.2 before your provider installs the latest gem by
running:
rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel_1-2-1

This will also allow you to test your application under Rails 1.2 to
make sure there are no problems.

–
Joe C.

6

On Jan 20, 2007, at 11:36 PM, Robby R. wrote:

This is a good question. In the past, we’ve learned to be very mindful
of existing customers not locking their applications to specific
versions and have taken a “upgrade when asked” approach. Most of our
customers are savvy developers and know how to use the rake tasks to
include whatever version of Rails that they want in vendor/.

At Engine Y., each environment is entirely independent.

We had customers running 1.2, and we now have customers running
1.2.1. :slight_smile:

–
– Tom M., CTO
– Engine Y., Ruby on Rails Hosting
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