Comments on: Migration from Rails 2.2 to 2.3

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:51:12 +0000

@Nik: Thanks for your comment!

Good question, and difficult to answer ;-) I think switching to a new language follows the 80/20 rule: 80% is relatively easy to learn, and the last 20% are difficult. I don’t know whether this answers your question…

Regarding the Ruby coding style: you get used to it after a while. I remember the time when I switched from Java to PHP, at that time I also thought PHP looks horrible with all those ->. In the meantime this style has become normal to me.

If you mean with “real project” a paid project, then no, there is currently no such project. I’m just working on a personal project.

By: Nik

Nik — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:30:54 +0000

Daniel, how difficult is to switch to complete new language? I think I couldn’t manage anymore :)

Nothing against RoR, but I’was used to PHP and Java/Javascript coding style and RoR is looking really horrible.

Do you have any real project with RoR?

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:44:05 +0000

@Sean: Thanks for your hint! My tests also failed and I got an “undefined method use_transactional_fixtures= ” error. To fix this issue I had to rename the class “Test::Unit::TestCase” to “ActiveSupport::TestCase” in test/test_helper.rb.

And thanks for the tip with “rake rails:update”, I didn’t knew this task yet.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:17:32 +0000

Make sure your tests work, there was a class moved around that caused all my stuff to break that ended up being a known thing to do with the upgrade.

BTW, most of the changes are done automatically with the rake rails:update task.

Sean