Hi Lutz:
Hi Yann
On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:39:11 +0100, "Yann Corno" <yann@daysofwonder.com> said:
Does anyone know if (or when) Ruby on Rails 2.0 will be available in MacPorts ?
There is an open ticket <http://tinyurl.com/3ydrxb> that asks for RoR 2.0. Unfortunately the maintainer of the RoR related ports seems not to be reachable. I'd try like to take over maintainership of these ports but before this I'd have to look deeper into the specifics of Ruby ports.
Thanks for your answer. It sure would be very nice to see it happening.
An open question is if the RoR ports should go to 2.x from 1.x in the existing ports or if the existing ports should be kept and new ports for RoR 2.x should be created.
This is always the $1 question when a major upgrade happens on a framework. You probably want to keep the old 1.x port, at least for some time, so that legacy applications can still work. My (short) experience with upgrading my RoR app to 2.0 showed me that on the surface, there were not many changes to perform on my app to make it work. But at the same time, the RoR architecture has been reworked a lot, with more use of plug-ins for previously built-in classes, etc. So you are probably looking at a rework of the port - but then again, I am no expert. Best, Yann