# Upgrading to 2.3 from 2.1

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrading-to-2-3-from-2-1/174253>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 23, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrading-to-2-3-from-2-1/174253 "2009-08-23T17:53:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisolsen)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrading-to-2-3-from-2-1/174253/1 "2009-08-23T17:53:27Z")

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Can be done in a one step process or do I have to upgrade to 2.2 then  
2.3?

Thanks for the help.

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**Author:** ![chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisolsen)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrading-to-2-3-from-2-1/174253/2 "2009-08-23T18:19:24Z")

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Hi Chris,

On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 17:53 +0200, Chris O. wrote:

> Can be done in a one step process or do I have to upgrade to 2.2 then  
> 2.3?
> 
> Thanks for the help.

Just one step.

Best regards,  
Bill

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**Author:** ![chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisolsen)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 10:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrading-to-2-3-from-2-1/174253/3 "2009-08-23T22:29:04Z")

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bill walton wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> Just one step.
> 
> Best regards,  
> Bill

Thanks for the help Bill.

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**Author:** ![chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisolsen)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrading-to-2-3-from-2-1/174253/4 "2009-08-23T23:06:56Z")

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Chris O. wrote:

> Can be done in a one step process or do I have to upgrade to 2.2 then  
> 2.3?
> 
> Thanks for the help.

After you have updated Rails and set your environment.rb to use the  
correct version don’t forget to run rake update.

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**Author:** ![chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisolsen)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 2:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrading-to-2-3-from-2-1/174253/5 "2009-08-24T02:01:45Z")

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On Aug 23, 2:06 pm, James W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> Chris O. wrote:
> 
> > Can be done in a one step process or do I have to upgrade to 2.2 then  
> > 2.3?
> 
> > Thanks for the help.
> 
> ## After you have updated Rails and set your environment.rb to use the correct version don’t forget to run rake update.

a few other things:

- application.rb , now “application\_controller.rb”

- mySQL install: need new gem for 2.2, 2.3

These should help

[http://intertwingly.net/blog/2009/05/15/Keeping-Up-With-Rails](http://intertwingly.net/blog/2009/05/15/Keeping-Up-With-Rails)

> **[Rails 2.3.2 upgrade gotchas](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/rails-2-3-2-upgrade-gotchas)**
>
> Known issues with upgrading to Rails version 2.3.2.

[http://commanigy.com/blog/2009/03/16/upgrading-rails-engines-project-to-rails-232.html](http://commanigy.com/blog/2009/03/16/upgrading-rails-engines-project-to-rails-232.html)

[http://www.lukeludwig.com/blog/2009/06/11/upgrading-to-rails-2-3-2-from-rails-2-1](http://www.lukeludwig.com/blog/2009/06/11/upgrading-to-rails-2-3-2-from-rails-2-1)

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**Author:** ![chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisolsen)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrading-to-2-3-from-2-1/174253/6 "2009-08-26T00:00:19Z")

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On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Chris  
Olsen[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Can be done in a one step process or do I have to upgrade to 2.2 then  
> 2.3?

Your test suite will be best suited to answer that question.

–  
Greg D.  
[http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/)
