Hi, Thanks for your answer, I'm going to try that. What do you mean by "if you can vendor rails into your repository" ? Is it still possible to run a 1.1.2 Rails App on Heroku or any other RoR Hosting?
Regards, Roch On Mar 16, 2:40 am, Rob Biedenharn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 15, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Roch Delsalle wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have been running a 1.1.2 RoR app for a few years without upgrading. > > I'm now forced to move it since we the current hosting plan is ending. > > I would like to know what would be the best way to do it since it has > > changed a lot. At the time I was using the localization plugin, and > > some really old things. > > > Thanks > > Yikes! And I thought I had an old app in production on Rails 1.2.2 > > Depending on how "big" it is, you might find it easier to rewrite it > for 2.3.5 or even jump on 3.0.beta. > > To "upgrade", the path looks something like: > > 1.1.2 => (1.1.6 =>) 1.2.0 => 1.2.6 => (2.x =>) 2.3.5 > > You might not need to hit 1.1.6, but gobs of stuff changed in 1.2.0 so > that's probably a good bet. Whether you need to hit 2.x (where x is > probably 0) might be debatable, but 1.2.6 should have the deprecation > warning for the bigger changes in 2.0. > > This assumes that you have good test coverage. > > And rewriting would be really hard (for whatever reason). > > Of course, if you can vendor rails into your repository, you might be > able to use 1.1.2 even longer. In my case, I have that 1.2.2 app > running under Passenger with ruby-1.8.7 and only had a few minor > issues getting Rails to run on that version (mostly due to iteration > over strings by character--something that ActiveSupport added, but > 1.8.7 has baked-in). > > Good luck! > > -Rob > > Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com > [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
