# How to freeze to 2.1.0-RC1?

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 17, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-freeze-to-2-1-0-rc1/137885 "2008-05-17T16:37:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ix\_Quic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ix\_Quic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ix_Quic)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-freeze-to-2-1-0-rc1/137885/1 "2008-05-17T16:37:18Z")

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What TAG or REVISION number do I use to rake rails:freeze:edge to  
2.1.0-RC1? I’ve tried TAG=rel\_2-1-0-RC1 and TAG=rel\_2-0-991, but without  
success.

(I’m on shared hosting, so I can’t just gem install rails easily.)

Also, when I freeze without a parameter (= bleeding edge if I understand  
correctly) and specify RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION=‘2.0.991’ in environment.rb, it  
seems to recognize the 2.1.0 features, but “rails -v” and “ruby  
script/about” still say “Rails version 2.0.2”. Is that normal?

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**Author:** ![Ix\_Quic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ix\_Quic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ix_Quic)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-freeze-to-2-1-0-rc1/137885/2 "2008-05-17T17:20:53Z")

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> Also, when I freeze without a parameter (= bleeding edge if I  
> understand correctly)  
> That should be “when I freeze to edge without a parameter”

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**Author:** ![Ix\_Quic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ix\_Quic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ix_Quic)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-freeze-to-2-1-0-rc1/137885/3 "2008-05-17T22:37:26Z")

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You can also get a compressed version of it from the github site if  
you’re not using git and then uncompress it into your vendor  
directory.

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**Author:** ![Ix\_Quic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ix\_Quic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ix_Quic)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-freeze-to-2-1-0-rc1/137885/4 "2008-05-17T17:42:36Z")

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On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Ix Quic [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> What TAG or REVISION number do I use to rake rails:freeze:edge to  
> 2.1.0-RC1? I’ve tried TAG=rel\_2-1-0-RC1 and TAG=rel\_2-0-991, but without  
> success.

I’m sure I’ll be corrected if I’m wrong, but I don’t think you can use  
rake rails:freeze… to get 2.1, since it’s only on github. Instead  
you have two alternatives:

1. Install it as a gem from the beta server: sudo gem install rails  
–source [http://gems.rubyonrails.com/](http://gems.rubyonrails.com/) and then freeze the gem.
2. install it using git:  
cd vendor  
svn rm rails (If you already have vendor/rails)  
git clone git://github.com/rails/rails.git rails  
git checkout v2.1.0\_RC1  
cd …  
rake rails:update  
svn add .

–  
Rick DeNatale

My blog on Ruby  
[http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/](http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/)

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**Author:** ![Ix\_Quic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ix\_Quic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ix_Quic)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-freeze-to-2-1-0-rc1/137885/5 "2008-05-17T23:39:07Z")

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Thanks, it worked!

cd vendor  
wget [http://github.com/rails/rails/tarball/v2.1.0\_RC1](http://github.com/rails/rails/tarball/v2.1.0_RC1)  
tar xvzf rails-rails-lotsofhexdigits.tar.gz  
mv rails-rails-whatever rails

Didn’t think it was that easy.