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

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-long-do-you-think-host-providers-will-take-to-go-to-rail/82460>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 19, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-long-do-you-think-host-providers-will-take-to-go-to-rail/82460 "2007-01-19T16:30:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-long-do-you-think-host-providers-will-take-to-go-to-rail/82460/1 "2007-01-19T16:30:37Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-long-do-you-think-host-providers-will-take-to-go-to-rail/82460/2 "2007-01-19T16:31:30Z")

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> 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](http://blog.webfaction.com/rails-1-2)

Remi

WebFaction - Hosting for an agile web

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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-long-do-you-think-host-providers-will-take-to-go-to-rail/82460/3 "2007-01-19T16:47:06Z")

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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](http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/RubyGems) has a fairly good  
explanation  
of how to do it.

RSL

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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 8:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-long-do-you-think-host-providers-will-take-to-go-to-rail/82460/4 "2007-01-21T08:37:27Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-long-do-you-think-host-providers-will-take-to-go-to-rail/82460/5 "2007-01-19T19:19:34Z")

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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.

> **[RailsPlayground.com Ruby On Rails Hosting](https://railsplayground.com/)**
>
> Ruby on Rails Web Hosting starting at just $5/a month

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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 9:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-long-do-you-think-host-providers-will-take-to-go-to-rail/82460/6 "2007-01-21T09:04:29Z")

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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. 🙂

–  
– Tom M., CTO  
– Engine Y., Ruby on Rails Hosting  
– Reliability, Ease of Use, Scalability  
– (866) 518-YARD (9273)