By: Chris Schneider
What kind of big hassles did you run into during the migration? Are there any classes of changes which were big pains? (The one that comes to mind for our app is date parsing has changed subtly).
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The biggest pain was outdated, unmaintained gems. Lots of gems have been abandoned in the jump to 1.9 or replaced by other ones. We made heavy use of Bundler’s :platform directive to build a...
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How many man hours/months did it take you guys?Why are you guys still running rails 2.3?We did thest upgrades last february, soooooo painful!!!!!
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About 8 months of on-and-off work – this was not a full-court press but it was a lane of development. The last two months were primarily operations work to support switching Ruby versions.We wanted to...
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By: Francisco
Hi,Great article. 10x for share.I’ve two and a half questions regarding this upgrade. 1) Which Linux distribution are you guys using (if it is Linux)?2) So using Puppet to install rbenv, can I assume...
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Thanks!1. CentOS 5, but we’re in the process of upgrading to 6.2. Yes, Puppet uses the (ancient) system Ruby, but we’re going to have to cross that bridge soon because Puppet 3 has dropped support for...
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