# Rails 3 up & running (sort of)

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**Created:** [November 21, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-3-up-running-sort-of/199442 "2010-11-21T16:54:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-3-up-running-sort-of/199442/1 "2010-11-21T16:54:53Z")

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I just got back from Australia where I attended a Rails camp in Perth.  
Several of us spent a beer- and vegemite-fueled weekend getting the  
Rails 3 branch on its feet, and I’m happy to say that we have a rough  
draft of Radiant running as an engine.

Picking up where Mislav left off over the summer, we rebased the rails3  
branch on top of master (minus Will’s recent config merges) and did  
enough to get a basic install and some recent extensions running.

This is a work in progress and the code is a beautiful mess at the  
moment. The specs aren’t running so I can’t say how green we are, but a  
lot of progress was made. Here’s a summary of the work that was done:

- Bundler used to manage dependencies, freezing & unfreezing, &c
- Extensions loading from engines
- Extension migrations running
- Some basic Rake tasks updated
- Generators updated

Most of the credit (like 96%) goes to Dirk Kelly and Jason Stirk, so  
please thank the two of them for a ton of hard work. I’ve pushed the  
updates to the rails3 branch; the best way to see it in action is to  
create a new Rails 3 project and load a local Radiant checkout in your  
Gemfile, like so:

gem ‘rails’, ‘3.0.1’  
gem ‘sqlite3-ruby’, :require =\> ‘sqlite3’ # or your db of choice  
gem ‘radiant’, :path =\> ‘lib/radiant’ # or wherever your Radiant  
checkout lives  
gem ‘compass’

As mentioned, this is only the first few steps and we were primarily  
concerned with just seeing something up and running. But I’m hoping this  
generates some momentum on the Rails 3 branch. Check it out and get  
hacking!

j