# Rails 1.1 to 1.2 upgrade question - is it recommended to upg

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-1-1-to-1-2-upgrade-question-is-it-recommended-to-upg/88197>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 8, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-1-1-to-1-2-upgrade-question-is-it-recommended-to-upg/88197 "2007-03-08T21:42:04Z")\
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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:** [March 8, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-1-1-to-1-2-upgrade-question-is-it-recommended-to-upg/88197/1 "2007-03-08T21:42:04Z")

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Just a general question re upgrading an application to a new version of  
rails:

Q1 - Is it recommended to upgrade the various rails files to the latest  
version (e.g. the scripts, configuration files etc)

Q2 - If yes, what’s the easiest approach? Create a new project and then  
copy your specific rails files across, but then for config files  
carefully  
copy/paste your changes out of the old to the new? Ummmm…but how then  
to  
align your new development area with your SVN repository?

Tks  
Greg

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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:** [March 8, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-1-1-to-1-2-upgrade-question-is-it-recommended-to-upg/88197/2 "2007-03-08T21:46:05Z")

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1. Yes

2. rake update[:configs, :javascripts, :scripts]

If you have lots of special configuration, you’ll probably want to back  
it  
up and copy over to the new file, but from 1.1 to 1.2 it’s not that much  
of  
a change.

Jason