I will start updating the documentation this weekend.
--
Matt
On Aug 24, 2011 1:19 PM, "Reinier Balt" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'll merge as soon as I have some time to try it out. Can someone help to
> update the docs for installing / upgrading tracks for 2.1 release?
>
> Reinier
>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Matt
>> Rogers
>> Verzonden: maandag 22 augustus 2011 23:55
>> Aan: Stefan Richter
>> CC: Reinier Balt; [email protected]
>> Onderwerp: Re: [Tracks-discuss] Re: Bundler and Tracks
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> You have a valid point. However, I believe the newer versions are a
result
> of
>> my not specifying all the dependencies in the Gemfile. As an example, I
>> specified cucumber-rails ~> 0.3.0 and it picked up cucumber
>> 1.0.2 which picked up gherkin 2.4.1. Before, the necessary versions as
>> specified in the environment file were the ones picked up when doing
'rake
>> gems:install RAILS_ENV=cucumber'. The way they're specified, I couldn't
>> install the required set of gems.
>>
>> One could argue that I could have just changed the environment files, and
>> they would be right. However, it seemed more approrpriate to take the
step
>> to use bundler since it's on the tracks roadmap to migrate to rails 3,
and
> rails 3
>> uses bundler.
>>
>> If it's preferrable, I can take the dependencies that bundler resolved
and
>> update the config.gem lines in the environment files to pull in those
when
>> 'rake gems:install' is ran.
>> --
>> Matt
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Stefan Richter <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Although I am a huge fan of bundler, I am not too sure its necessary
> ASAP
>> as the old versions are not solved by bundler but by you specifying a
>> different version. The question for this move is more about the users and
>> their migration path.
>> >
>> > -stefan
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: [email protected]
>> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> > Matt Rogers
>> > Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 4:57 PM
>> > To: Reinier Balt
>> > Cc: [email protected]
>> > Subject: [Tracks-discuss] Re: Bundler and Tracks
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I think we should do it sooner than 2.2, so ASAP, but I don't know what
> the
>> timeline is for 2.1. There are several reasons for that:
>> >
>> > 1. Remove a potential barrier to entry for contributors. A lot of the
> errors I
>> was getting were due to the fact that some things on my system were too
>> new (GCC 4.6, for example) and so the older versions of things that were
>> specified in the environment files wouldn't install because their native
>> extensions wouldn't compile. With bundler, we can pick up new enough
>> versions of gems so that they'll work but they're still compatible with
> some of
>> the older gems we need because we're still a Rails 2 app.
>> >
>> > I couldn't run the cucumber test suite at all until I finished this
> work.
>> >
>> > 2. Provides a consistent environment to use with development, testing,
>> and deployment w/o having to go through "rake gems:install" multiple
times
>> for each environment. The gems in the Gemfile are grouped, so for a
>> production only build, you can tell the bundle command to exclude certain
>> groups to get a minimum amount of gems.
>> >
>> > 3. One step closer towards being on Rails 3. Bundler is baked in and
> used by
>> default. This is only a nice side effect due to the fact that I looked at
> the
>> roadmap in Assembla and saw Rails 3 on there.
>> >
>> > 4. Somebody's done the work, why not merge it? :)
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Matt
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Reinier Balt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> Sorry, didn't see it :-)
>> >>
>> >> I'd like to move to bundler for 2.2. Or do people think it would be
>> >> best to do it asap?
>> >>
>> >> Reinier
>> >>
>> >>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> >>> Van: [email protected]
>> >>> [mailto:tracks-discuss- [email protected]] Namens Matt
>> >>> Rogers
>> >>> Verzonden: maandag 22 augustus 2011 4:43
>> >>> Aan: [email protected]
>> >>> Onderwerp: [Tracks-discuss] Bundler and Tracks
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>>
>> >>> I've submitted a pull request (#5) for converting Tracks to use
>> >>> Bundler instead of Rails 2.3.x default gem handling.
>> >>>
>> >>> I've successfully been able to run the unit tests and the cucumber
>> >>> (w/o
>> >>> selenium) tests, and more importantly, my use of the app over the
>> >>> last few days has not hit any snags, so I feel pretty comfortable
with
> it.
>> >>>
>> >>> Reinier, I didn't see your user id listed when I sent the pull
>> >>> request, so
>> >> I'm
>> >>> going to assume you haven't seen it yet - which would be why I'm
>> >>> sending this email :)
>> >>>
>> >>> Comments and feedback much appreciated!
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks
>> >>> --
>> >>> Matt
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