From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2005-04-18T01:43:20+09:00 Subject: Re: All Quiet on the Western Front: Is Rails overshadowing Ruby? "David A. Black" writes: > Hi -- > > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Christian Neukirchen wrote: > >> David Heinemeier Hansson writes: >> >>> Where RubyGems has made a big difference, I think, is for upgrading >>> and trying out new versions of libraries you already have. So >>> basically, it's the library versioning that, to me, is one of the >>> biggest draws of RubyGems. >> >> Now, I didn't get too deep into Rails, but how would one practically >> do that: Have several Rails projects, which all use different >> versions of AR, AC etc...? > > Yes. You can specify version numbers in your configuration for each > app, which is nice because it means you don't have to upgrade all your > Rails apps as soon as a new version of Rails comes out. I've done > this quite a lot (with the Ruby FAQ, RCRchive, etc.). And how is that a major advantage over linking to them in vendor/ ? > David A. Black -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org