devgrind » wtf http://devgrind.com thinking outside the { } Tue, 04 May 2010 17:25:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Keeping Up with Rails http://devgrind.com/2009/02/07/keeping-up-with-rails/ http://devgrind.com/2009/02/07/keeping-up-with-rails/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:04:02 +0000 Arne http://devgrind.com/?p=63 I’m currently updating a not-so-small application from Rails 2.0.2 to 2.2.2 and it seems that about every other plugin is not compatible with the new version, because one or the other method was removed,  and I have to update them as well. Not such a big problem, if a compatible version exists, but takes quite some time, and I don’t understand that I have to go through this hassle (and other hassles) about everytime I update to a new Rails version. I don’t remember having this kind of trouble when I was working in Java Land. Can somebody explain?

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Purpose for states: Draft, Adopted, Deprecated

It kinda speaks for itself.

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