From: "T. Onoma" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-08-21T04:03:17+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Rails 0.6.5 (AR 0.9.4, AP 0.8.0): Release of Contributors!

On Friday 20 August 2004 01:08 pm, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> I gather that most people are now familar with the RoR suite, so I'm
> skipping the formal introductions and will just bring you the meat.
>
> Get it all from http://www.rubyonrails.org, talk it up on #rubyonrails
> (FreeNet).
>
> Or even easier, just do "gem install rails" -- you'll automatically
> install all the newest versions of the required dependencies.

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just lost my entire rails application. I had originally 
installed Rails by hand, but wanted to move over to using Gem per the 
recommendation. I went to the Rail's wiki and read what to do. But when I ran

  rails /complete/path/to/my/rails/app

The first thing it did was
 
  rm -rf /complete/path/to/my/rails/app

Bye-bye. And I hadn't made a backup yet. Very bad! I relly need to setup an 
automated backup. Well there goes another weeks worth of work --I don't know 
of any way of undeleting those files. Can I curse now?

So I thought I'd let you all know, just FYI. David you might want to have 
rails check for old files. I take it I don't have to run the 'rails' command 
after a 'gem update' in the future.

Sadly,
T.