"Getting Started" needs Rails 3.0, but "gem install rails" installs Rails 2.3.8

As of this writing:

The Getting Started guide (http://guides.rails.info/ getting_started.html) was recently re-written to reflect recent features in Rails 3.0. But the instructions it gives for downloading rails in section 3.1 ("gem install rails") fetches rails 2.3.8, which won't work for the given code. Not helpful to a newcomer.

So (is Mikel Lindsaar listening?) any one of these would be useful:

- The Guide should explain how to download Rails 3.0 (iff it is stable) - The Guide should offer a pointer to Rails 2.3.8 compatible examples - The Guide should be rolled back to Rails 2.3.8 until Rails 3.0 is the main version

(As a newcomer myself, let me know if there's a more constructive place to direct this note. Thanks!)

- ff

On the front page of guides.rails.info it says '

" There are two different versions of the Guides site, and you should be sure to use the one that applies to your situation:

Current Release version – based on Rails 2.3 Edge version – based on the current Rails master branch"

with links to both.

Fred

Frederick Cheung wrote:

- The Guide should explain how to download Rails 3.0 (iff it is stable)

I used this link http://oscardelben.com/articles/2009/12/06/how-to-test-rails-3.html for getting a Rails3 running enviroment.

Simone

Anyone else getting an error when running the rake install task?

jr@jr-desktop:~/dev/rails$ sudo rake --trace install (in /home/jr/dev/rails) ** Invoke install (first_time) ** Invoke gem (first_time) ** Invoke pkg/rails-3.0.pre.gem (first_time, not_needed) ** Invoke pkg (first_time, not_needed) ** Execute gem (in /home/jr/dev/rails/activesupport) (in /home/jr/dev/rails/activemodel) (in /home/jr/dev/rails/actionpack) (in /home/jr/dev/rails/actionmailer) (in /home/jr/dev/rails/activeresource) (in /home/jr/dev/rails/activerecord) (in /home/jr/dev/rails/railties) rake aborted! undefined method `setup' for Bundler:Module /home/jr/dev/rails/railties/Rakefile:1 (See full trace by running task with --trace) rake aborted! Errors in railties /home/jr/dev/rails/Rakefile:23 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:636:in `call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:636:in `execute' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:631:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:631:in `execute' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:597:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:590:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:607:in `invoke_prerequisites' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:604:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:604:in `invoke_prerequisites' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:596:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:590:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:583:in `invoke' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2051:in `invoke_task' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `top_level' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `top_level' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:in `standard_exception_handling' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2023:in `top_level' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2001:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:in `standard_exception_handling' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:1998:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/bin/rake:31 /usr/bin/rake:19:in `load' /usr/bin/rake:19

This is true, but the UI design leaves a bit to be desired.

When you click on either link the page doesn't change to show you which version you've selected.

Actually I lied a little bit. The only difference is that if you click the Current Release Version link the title just above says

Ruby on Rails guides

and when you click on Edge Version it changes to:

Ruby on Rails Guides

Which I guess makes it perfectly clear <G>

Can anybody tell me the new features in Rails 3.0

Thanks & Regards Ankit Varshney +91-9899314144

Can anybody tell me the new features in Rails 3.0

Thanks & Regards Ankit Varshney +91-9899314144

Hi, please start by reading the Rails 3 beta release notes:

http://guides.rails.info/3_0_release_notes.html

Good luck,

-Conrad

Frederick Cheung wrote:

  • The Guide should explain how to download Rails 3.0 (iff it is

stable)

I used this link

http://oscardelben.com/articles/2009/12/06/how-to-test-rails-3.html

for getting a Rails3 running enviroment.

Simone

I would recommend the following link instead:

http://guides.rails.info/3_0_release_notes.html

Good luck,

-Conrad