# Your RoR 1.1 Adoption Prediction?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/your-ror-1-1-adoption-prediction/56190>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 28, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/your-ror-1-1-adoption-prediction/56190 "2006-03-28T20:58:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![joep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@joep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joep)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/your-ror-1-1-adoption-prediction/56190/1 "2006-03-28T20:58:25Z")

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What is the likelyhood that major inexpensive webhosts like godaddy,  
bluehost, etc. will upgrade to RoR 1.1? Is this going to be like PHP 5  
where it has to percolate for a year or more before it becomes widly  
available? Your thoughts?

Along the same lines… is it possible to adopt some of the new improved  
Ajax / javascript capabilities without actually upgrading the ruby  
installation?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![joep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@joep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joep)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/your-ror-1-1-adoption-prediction/56190/2 "2006-03-28T21:04:27Z")

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I would just run 1.1 out of the vendor folder. I wouldn’t even try to  
guess when a hosting company would upgrade.

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 20:58 +0200, Joe P. wrote:

> What is the likelyhood that major inexpensive webhosts like godaddy,  
> bluehost, etc. will upgrade to RoR 1.1? Is this going to be like PHP 5  
> where it has to percolate for a year or more before it becomes widly  
> available? Your thoughts?
> 
> Along the same lines… is it possible to adopt some of the new improved  
> Ajax / javascript capabilities without actually upgrading the ruby  
> installation?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Charlie B.  
[http://www.recentrambles.com](http://www.recentrambles.com)

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**Author:** ![joep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@joep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joep)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/your-ror-1-1-adoption-prediction/56190/3 "2006-03-28T21:13:55Z")

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I think it’s really a market decision. The main reason for why PHP5  
has such a slow adoption is because developers really haven’t started  
using it. And fewer apps are going to have problems.  
Rails user base is much smaller and a lot higher persent of it is  
professional. So the hosting companies will switch over when we ask  
them to.

On 3/28/06, Joe P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

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**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/your-ror-1-1-adoption-prediction/56190/4 "2006-03-28T21:46:22Z")

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TextDrive support said they are updating today.

Regarding “major”… IMO it’s a no-brainer to host Rails application at  
godaddy.

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**Author:** ![joep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@joep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joep)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/your-ror-1-1-adoption-prediction/56190/5 "2006-03-28T21:26:08Z")

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rake freeze\_edge REVISION=4091

-Eric

Charlie B. wrote:

> > Along the same lines… is it possible to adopt some of the new improved
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> Rails mailing list  
> removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
> [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)

–  
Eric G.  
[http://www.ericgoodwin.com](http://www.ericgoodwin.com)

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**Author:** ![joep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@joep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joep)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 9:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/your-ror-1-1-adoption-prediction/56190/6 "2006-03-28T21:27:03Z")

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So the real issue here is if your host supports Ruby 1.8.4.  
You can always do something like use a subversion external to link to  
the rails 1.1 release, which will put the code in your vendor directory.

You don’t need your host for that.  
However, rails 1.1 needs ruby 1.8.4, without that you may have trouble.

-Kevin