How long do you think host providers will take to go to Rails 1.2?

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Hi,

Does anyone have previous experience here re how long most hosting providers take to upgrade rails? (i.e. to v1.2 in this case)

I assume the standard approach is to resist upgrading until your hosting provider has first (i.e. DEV environment == PROD environment)?

Tks

PS I’m using Dreamhost at the moment.

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Does anyone have previous experience here re *how long most hosting providers take to upgrade rails?* (i.e. to v1.2 in this case)

Depends on the hosting company ... WebFaction has already added support for Rails-1.2.1: http://blog.webfaction.com/rails-1-2

Remi

WebFaction - Hosting for an agile web

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You might want to consider adding your own gem library. I’ve got a few sites on DH and all of them have required various gems which aren’t installed. http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/RubyGems has a fairly good explanation of how to do it.

RSL

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You can use Rails 1.2 before your provider installs the latest gem by running: rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel_1-2-1

This will also allow you to test your application under Rails 1.2 to make sure there are no problems.

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This is a good question. In the past, we've learned to be very mindful of existing customers not locking their applications to specific versions and have taken a "upgrade when asked" approach. Most of our customers are savvy developers and know how to use the rake tasks to include whatever version of Rails that they want in vendor/.

This is what we encourage customers that host with us at PLANET ARGON.

-Robby

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At Engine Yard, each environment is entirely independent.

We had customers running 1.2, and we now have customers running 1.2.1. :slight_smile: