Updating Rails to Version 1.1.2

I’ve been doing a fair amount of Rails development on OS X over the past year. During this time Rails has undergone a significant amount of development. When I initally installed Rails on OS X the current version was 1.0.0. This has been great until I recently ran into a problem with the acts_as_taggable plugin.

This plugin requires Rails version 1.1 or later due to some dependency on polymorphism. I decided not to dig into the details and figured it was time for an update. The update was much easier than expected and consisted of running the following command:

ruby gem update rails –include-dependencies

This downloaded all the necessary libraries, documentation, and I was immediately running on version 1.1.2. I restarted my app and tagging was instantly enabled. I’ll post more details later on how to actually use the plugin. It’s a minimal amount of work for the bang you get. But that seems to summarize my experience with Rails