#225 Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 1

Aug 02, 2010 | 11 minutes | Plugins, Rails 3.0

In the first part of this series on upgrading a Rails 2 application to Rails 3, we'll start off by setting up Rails 3.0 Release Candidate in a clean environment. The rails_upgrade plugin will then help us determine what needs upgrading.

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          bash
        
rvm update
rvm reload
rvm install 1.9.2
gem install rails --pre
rvm system
script/plugin install git://github.com/rails/rails_upgrade.git
rails -v
rake rails:upgrade:check
rake rails:upgrade:backup
rvm 1.9.2
rails new . -d mysql
bundle install
rails s

          config/application.rb
        
class Object
  def returning(value)
    yield(value)
    value
  end
end
# ...
config.time_zone = 'Pacific Time (US & Canada)'

          Gemfile
        
gem "RedCloth", ">= 4.0", :require => 'redcloth'
gem "coderay"
gem "acts_as_list"
gem "will_paginate"
gem "thinking-sphinx", ">= 2.0.0.rc1", :require => 'thinking_sphinx'
gem "whenever", :require => false