On Dec 1, 2009, at 6:43 PM, Micah Anderson wrote: > > This is a bit of an older thread, but I found it because I was > wandering > through the archives trying to find an answer to my question: > > why specifically is rails 2.2.2 is a requirement for 0.25? The release > notes[0] say: > > Rails versions up to 2.3.x are now supported. Rails version > 2.2.2 or greater is required. > > However, I cannot find anywhere that details why 2.2.2. Debian's > stable > is at 2.1, and I'm wondering if installing 0.25.x on those stable > systems is asking for a problem, if so what are those problems?
This is incorrect - 2.1 and later are supported, at least according to the Rails feature in the code, which should be the final arbiter. > Luke Kanies <[email protected]> writes: > >> This is one of the things I hate most about the Rails community -- I >> complain about it so loudly that some Rails dev friends of mine >> make a >> shirt that says "I just put it in vendor!". > > I would love that shirt. I'm constantly fighting this battle and > having > to re-explain why it is a bad thing, over and over again. > >> On May 13, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Nicholas E. Hubbard wrote: >> >>> I use puppet to manage my rails servers and can personally tell you >>> it is a best practice with Rails applications to lock them to a >>> specific version. This is because so much changes in the underlying >>> versions. > > Not to open an old discussion, but saying 'best practice with Rails' > does not give something much weight at all, there are a lot of best > practices with Rails that are absurd and this is one of them. > >> Is there something about Rails discussions that suddenly makes people >> top-reply? :) > > Or perhaps something about gmail, which encourages top-posting :( > >> Seems like we should either require an older version, or see if we >> can >> support, say, 2.1-2.3. > > and then I did not see any more discussion of this. Is there any clear > indication of why 2.2.2 was chosen somewhere? > > thanks! > micah > > > 0. http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ReleaseNotes > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Puppet Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en > . > > -- Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. --Robert Heinlein --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
