If you are starting to develop a new Rails application, which version
of rails will you choose, 1.2.6 or 2.0?
For me, the reasons to choose 1.2.6 are:
1) I have the book "Agile Web Development With Rails 2nd" at hand for
reference. I can get a systematic rails knowledge from that book. But
for 2.0, I don't know where I can find such a book or online resources
to study it.
2) 1.2.6 is mature since it has been released for a long time. A lot
of critical bugs have been fixed to make it stable. But version 2.0 is
a new release, I am not sure whether it is stable enough. I am afraid
that I don't have so much expertise on core Rails knowledge, so
struggling with unsolvable bugs are always hard and time-consuming for
me.
And the reasons to choose 2.0 are:
1) Now some new features are brought to Rails version 2.0. If I still
stick to 1.2.6, I will miss those new features.
2) It seems 2.0 has been mainstream in Rails community. More and more
people are switching to 2.0. So if i choose 2.0, I will get more and
more help from the community if I meet some problems.
3) If I choose 1.2.6, I will face the future risk someday: I have to
upgrade the application from 1.2.6 to 2.0. I don't know how difficult
the upgrade task is. Maybe I have to rewrite most of the app's codes,
that is terrible!
If you are starting to develop a new Rails application, which version
of rails will you choose, 1.2.6 or 2.0?
2.0.2
For me, the reasons to choose 1.2.6 are:
1) I have the book "Agile Web Development With Rails 2nd" at hand for
reference. I can get a systematic rails knowledge from that book. But
for 2.0, I don't know where I can find such a book or online resources
to study it.
you can use most examples from the book with 2.0
2) 1.2.6 is mature since it has been released for a long time. A lot
of critical bugs have been fixed to make it stable. But version 2.0 is
a new release, I am not sure whether it is stable enough. I am afraid
that I don't have so much expertise on core Rails knowledge, so
struggling with unsolvable bugs are always hard and time-consuming for
me.
a lot of people where using the edge version over the last months. i
think we don't have to expect lots of errors. especially if you're
starting and as a
beginner not using any 'critical' features (if there're any.
And the reasons to choose 2.0 are:
1) Now some new features are brought to Rails version 2.0. If I still
stick to 1.2.6, I will miss those new features.
yes you will
2) It seems 2.0 has been mainstream in Rails community. More and more
people are switching to 2.0. So if i choose 2.0, I will get more and
more help from the community if I meet some problems.
everybody will try to help you, whatever you choose, but with
difficult question about eg routing people will tell you to use
those nice new features
3) If I choose 1.2.6, I will face the future risk someday: I have to
upgrade the application from 1.2.6 to 2.0. I don't know how difficult
the upgrade task is. Maybe I have to rewrite most of the app's codes,
that is terrible!
You may also want to check which version your web host supports. I know
that our hosting company (Hostgator) took a long time before adding
Rails 1.2 support. I very much doubt if, now they have that working
reliably, they will rush to switch to version 2.0. Apart from 'special
interest' companies, most commercial web hosts are pretty conservative,
preferring to stick with what is known to work rather than switching to
a new version at an early date...
You may also want to check which version your web host supports. I
know
that our hosting company (Hostgator) took a long time before adding
Rails 1.2 support. I very much doubt if, now they have that working
reliably, they will rush to switch to version 2.0. Apart from 'special
interest' companies, most commercial web hosts are pretty
conservative,
preferring to stick with what is known to work rather than switching
to
a new version at an early date...
Although if you freeze rails into /vendor that's not an issue (which I
think is a good idea anyway)
You may also want to check which version your web host supports. I know
that our hosting company (Hostgator) took a long time before adding
Rails 1.2 support. I very much doubt if, now they have that working
reliably, they will rush to switch to version 2.0. Apart from 'special
interest' companies, most commercial web hosts are pretty conservative,
preferring to stick with what is known to work rather than switching to
a new version at an early date...
If you are starting to develop a new Rails application, which version
of rails will you choose, 1.2.6 or 2.0?
2.0. You're just starting your app. What's your timeline? 2 months? 6 months? By the time your done odds are any issues you run up against will be fixed and also more and more people will be using it...
For me, the reasons to choose 1.2.6 are:
1) I have the book "Agile Web Development With Rails 2nd" at hand for
reference. I can get a systematic rails knowledge from that book. But
for 2.0, I don't know where I can find such a book or online resources
to study it.
Ryan Daigle does a nice job of blogging about new features.
He also wrote up a nice little PDF booklet documenting major changes.
Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks in advance!
2 all the way.
In fact, if you're starting, use piston to import rails 2.0.2 into your vendor directory and then you can easily update it as new versions come out (or not). But in any event you'll know what version your using regardless of what gems are installed where.
If you are starting to develop a new Rails application, which version
of rails will you choose, 1.2.6 or 2.0?
I think the answer to this depends largely on where you are with your
knowledge of Rails.
If you already have rails experience then I'd say go with 2.0.x. Obie
Fernandez's new book the Rails Way is a good resource for experienced
Rails 1.2 folks to come up to speed on 2.0 but it won't serve as a
good resource for getting off the ground with rails, those resources
are, as far as I can see all 1.2 based, and trying to use them with
2.0 as you learn is likely to be frustrating.
For me, the reasons to choose 1.2.6 are:
1) I have the book "Agile Web Development With Rails 2nd" at hand for
reference. I can get a systematic rails knowledge from that book. But
for 2.0, I don't know where I can find such a book or online resources
to study it.
Which is the reason I recommend using 1.2.6 for newcomers to Rails
until the good tutorial material catches up.
2) 1.2.6 is mature since it has been released for a long time. A lot
of critical bugs have been fixed to make it stable. But version 2.0 is
a new release, I am not sure whether it is stable enough. I am afraid
that I don't have so much expertise on core Rails knowledge, so
struggling with unsolvable bugs are always hard and time-consuming for
me.
2.0 is stable enough I think. And a lot of the code is common or very
similar between the two, so if you don't need the kind of tutorial
information which is only available for 1.2 then I don't believe that
this is a reason to not use 2.0.
And the reasons to choose 2.0 are:
1) Now some new features are brought to Rails version 2.0. If I still
stick to 1.2.6, I will miss those new features.
2) It seems 2.0 has been mainstream in Rails community. More and more
people are switching to 2.0. So if i choose 2.0, I will get more and
more help from the community if I meet some problems.
3) If I choose 1.2.6, I will face the future risk someday: I have to
upgrade the application from 1.2.6 to 2.0. I don't know how difficult
the upgrade task is. Maybe I have to rewrite most of the app's codes,
that is terrible!
Although I have personally upgraded an app from 1.2 to 2.0, from what
I've seen it's really not that bad, and there are resources on the web
to help.
