# What's the difference between edge rails & rails 2.0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 13, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-edge-rails-rails-2-0/123088 "2007-12-13T22:43:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matthew)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-edge-rails-rails-2-0/123088/1 "2007-12-13T22:43:44Z")
Hi, It would be great if someone could please let me know if I’m using edge rails, am I using Rails 2.0? Sorry for being a bit slow. ---
**Author:** ![matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matthew)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 1:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-edge-rails-rails-2-0/123088/2 "2007-12-14T01:03:52Z")
Matt S.1 wrote: > Hi, > > It would be great if someone could please let me know if I’m using edge > rails, am I using Rails 2.0? > > Sorry for being a bit slow. well, there a a bunch of different definitions now. I THINK: edge rails is the version on you local machine for development. it is usually a version ahead of the web host version. it may be considered unstable… that being what i keep reading, 2.0 may be edge rails, depending what is installed in production system. does the release of 2.0 makes it NON edge rails? not sure. somebody else may have a different take on this… anybody? ---
**Author:** ![matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matthew)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 1:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-edge-rails-rails-2-0/123088/3 "2007-12-14T01:20:27Z")
Rails 2.0 is a snapshot release of Rails when it was thought to be at it’s stablest. This means it should be able to be used in production environments. People should take care when using it, as it is still young and there _may_ be bugs out there, but nothing too serious. On Dec 14, 2007 10:33 AM, gemblon (t.b.) [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > somebody else may have a different take on this… anybody? > > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > > – Ryan B. > **[frozenplague.net](http://www.frozenplague.net)** > > This domain may be for sale! ---
**Author:** ![matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matthew)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-edge-rails-rails-2-0/123088/4 "2007-12-14T01:22:32Z")
Ryan B. wrote: > Rails 2.0 is a snapshot release of Rails when it was thought to be at > it’s > stablest. This means it should be able to be used in production thanks ryan ---
**Author:** ![matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matthew)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 2:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-edge-rails-rails-2-0/123088/5 "2007-12-14T02:01:27Z")
On Dec 13, 2007, at 6:03 PM, gemblon (t.b.) wrote: > well, there a a bunch of different definitions now. > does the release of 2.0 makes it NON edge rails? not sure. > > somebody else may have a different take on this… anybody? My take on this is Edge Rails is not what _I_ use for development, but what is currently being developed by the core team. Kind of like getting latest from the code repository. You might also call it a development build. Probably loosely analogous to Debian Unstable. Peace, Phillip ---
**Author:** ![matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matthew)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-edge-rails-rails-2-0/123088/6 "2007-12-14T16:57:20Z")
As far as having all the goodies in 2.0, if yr on Edge Rails… you have them. 🙂 Hope that answer helps. RSL ---
**Author:** ![matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matthew)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-edge-rails-rails-2-0/123088/7 "2007-12-14T18:29:28Z")
“Edge” comes from “bleeding edge,” meaning you have the very latest version of Rails. To say “version,” though, is a bit of a misnomer, as edge never corresponds to any specific version. As Russell mentioned, if you have edge, you will always have the features of the latest proper version, but the crucial difference is that you will usually also have _more_ features with edge. This is because the edge is the main development trunk, meaning the place where all the work on Rails is actually occurring. Every so often, the core team will go through the latest changes on the trunk (edge) and select a number of them to be included in an official release, which, as Ryan mentioned, then gets created as a branch of the trunk (snapshot) such as 2.0. In short, official versions of Rails are released as gems. To use edge, you would need to explicitly export the Rails trunk from the official code repository. Since this only happens if you intentionally do it, and since you probably followed some instructions that had you install the Rails gem, you’re most likely not using edge. More specifically, if all you did was install the Rails 2.0 gem, then you are decidedly not using edge. Ian ---
**Author:** ![matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matthew)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 7:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-edge-rails-rails-2-0/123088/8 "2007-12-14T19:42:48Z")
edge == rails trunk, no? On Dec 13, 1:43 pm, Matt S.1 [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)