Funny. After reading stuff like:

http://gusg.us/code/ruby/rails-2_2-headaches-1

we made a decision to delay moving to Rails 2.2 for as long as we
could. If Hobo will require it (and we dearly need to keep up to date
if we are going to keep using Hobo), then suddenly we're probably
staring at a giant amount of pain, just to keep our platform updated.

I understand exactly why you guys are doing this. It is just TOO
difficult to deal with Rails's changing interfaces. I'm not
criticizing you for it. But the fact that you guys can't do it and the
fact that as a consequence we'll either have to drop Hobo or incur
significant pointless pain just points to the failure of the Rails
platform. And, yes, I think it's failed. This sort of thing has been a
problem on every ... single ... update.

Frankly, rapid development *isn't* rapid development if either every
dependency has to be pegged to the same version or nothing works at
all and if transitions aren't easy. Moving up to Rails 2.1 took
several weeks for us. Sure, any new app can use the latest and
greatest versions and everything is spiffy, but the moment your app
has been around, you'll begin to feel the pain.

We have dozens of plugins we use. We can't go to Rails 2.2 unless ALL
of them play nice. That's a ridiculous penalty to pay just for an
update from 0.8.3 to 0.8.4. But that's where we are. Ruby and Rails's
lack of discipline with interfaces has lead to a Totally Failed
Platform.

On Dec 3, 3:13 am, Tom Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> There's just too much grief trying to support both Rails 2.1 and 2.2,  
> so Hobo 0.8.4 (and edge Hobo as of any today) will require Rails 2.2
>
>  From your point of view hardly anything has changed, so moving to  
> Rails 2.2 should be simple.
>
> Heroku also have support for Rails 2.2 now (one issue that had been  
> tying us back)
>
> One tip - you will need to remove this line:
>
>    config.action_view.cache_template_loading = true
>
> from config/environments/production.rb
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom
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