# Upgrading to 2.3

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrading-to-2-3/166973>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 1, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrading-to-2-3/166973 "2009-05-01T16:25:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ihihih](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/bcef8e/32.png) [@ihihih](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ihihih)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrading-to-2-3/166973/1 "2009-05-01T16:25:43Z")

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I’m having trouble upgrading my app from rails 2.2.2 to 2.3.2. I’ve  
successfully installed the 2.3.2 gem (when I type ‘rails -v’ i get  
“Rails 2.3.2”) and I’ve changed the environment.rb file to use 2.3.2,  
but ‘rake rails:update’ doesn’t seem to do anything and when I try to  
run script/about it says rails 2.2.2 is being used. I have also used  
‘rake rails:unfreeze’. I’m not sure what else to try so any  
suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![ihihih](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/bcef8e/32.png) [@ihihih](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ihihih)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2009, 5:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrading-to-2-3/166973/2 "2009-05-01T17:23:04Z")

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Check there is not a rails folder in vendor. If there is, delete it.

2009/5/1 ih [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![ihihih](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/bcef8e/32.png) [@ihihih](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ihihih)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrading-to-2-3/166973/3 "2009-05-01T17:30:07Z")

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That worked, thanks. I thought unfreeze was doing it, but I did not  
check and it turns out I needed to have super user permission.

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**Author:** ![ihihih](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/bcef8e/32.png) [@ihihih](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ihihih)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/upgrading-to-2-3/166973/4 "2009-05-02T02:10:44Z")

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Sounds like you did the freeze as root. That’s not a very good idea.