[Rails] Re: advice upgrading to rails 3.1 from 2.3

Hey, thanks for this.
I think we will start fresh too.
We are doing this on a new server that is not in production yet, so we
can make mistakes without it costing us too much.
I appreciate your help.

sk

On Sep 5, 12:00 pm, Robert Rouse <robert.e.ro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My team did a Rails 2.3 -> 3.0 upgrade in stages.
>
> We duplicated the new AR syntax in a library and spent a few days
> converting our AR calls to the new syntax. After that was done, we
> bumped up the Rails version, put the new files in place, created new
> environment files, and switched our routes to the new syntax. That was
> really the bulk of it. Our 2.3 app was already setup to use Bundler,
> so we didn't have to worry about that.
>
> The only thing that really bit us in the end was the switch to "escape
> html by default".
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> While you can do it in place, I think piecing it back together with a
> new app would be cleaner (after our experiences)
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> As for prototype/jquery,if you don't forget to use jQuery.noconflict
> and add in the prototype gem, it should work I think. Worst case
> scenario is that the UJS stuff doesn't work out of the box, but I
> never really used the ajax type calls in Rails.
>
> On Sep 5, 11:32 am, nephish <neph...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hey all,
> > I have a fairly large application in Rails 2.3   I would like to
> > upgrade the site to Rails 3.1
> > Now, the advice i need here is..
> > What is most likely a cleaner solution? Do i cd into my rails app, do
> > a backup and rails new .  over the top and go through and fix what is
> > broken then?
> > Or, would it be cleaner to start fresh, and move my older code into
> > place on a file by file basis?
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> > One more question. My existing app uses prototype, i will likely want
> > to start in JQuery soon, but need both to work for a while, is this
> > going to be a problem?
>
> > thanks

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