What is EdgeRails in Ruby on Rails?

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April 17, 2008 – 10:30 pm

My friend ask me what is EdgeRails..this is what i found out :

‘EdgeRails’ is a term which means you are running a local copy of a developmental version of Rails(bleeding edge). It is an alternative to the more standard GemRails, which means you are running one of the stable releases.

‘Bleeding Edge‘ is a term that refers to technology that is so new (and thus, presumably, not perfected) that the user is required to risk reductions in stability and productivity in order to use it.

‘GemRails‘ is preferred method of installing Rails is through the packaging scheme RubyGems that makes it really easy to install libraries and keep them up to date

Advantage : get access to new features or bug fixes that are not in the most recent stable release. . Also EdgeRails allows you to run on computer without Rails installed

Disadvantage : developmental versions are not generally regarded to be stable. So it’s a tradeoff

How to use EdgeRails : embeded a (developmental) version of Rails within your application(copy into the vendor/rails directory) rather than using the version installed on your machine as a library

How to switch from Gemrails to EdgeRails :

Run ‘rake rails:freeze:edge‘ from application home directory to unpack the latest edge rails into application vendor/rails directory. This embeds the Rails framework into your application by using Subversion (svn) to copy the files from the developmental source code repository (dev.rubyonrails.org) into your vendor/rails directory
To revert to GemRails, run command ‘rake rails:unfreeze‘.That command empties the vendor/rails directory

How to install and managing EdgeRails visit http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/07/11/installing-and-managing-edge-rails/

Visit http://ryandaigle.com/tags/Edge%20Rails to know what’s new in EdgeRails

Visit http://dev.rubyonrails.org/wiki to create ticket/bug report/patch

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