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Automating a portion of the upgrade to Rails 3

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What's the best way to keep up with what's going on with Rails 3? I've been reading your articles, and wycats', and I'm subscribed to rails-core. But when I tried to make an app yesterday, the most basic hello world app with one scaffolding didn't work. I posted to rails-talk yesterday, and nobody answered... any thoughts on this? I'd like to keep a little bit ahead of the curve, and possibly contribute if there's still low-hanging fruit...

EDIT: And it's not like I expect anything to work in a prerelease either. But I couldn't find anything directly on Lighthouse, but I don't know if that was because I was searching for the wrong terms, or if this is being worked on by someone, or any other number of things...

Hm that's unfortunate. For myself, I watch the list, the commits, and blogs to keep up. In general, there's not a whole lot of information available at this point outside the codebase and what myself and a few others have mined out of that.

I doubt many people on rails-talk know a whole lot about Rails 3; if you think you've found a bug, I'd suggest maybe posting on rails-core or in the Lighthouse.

Maybe I should add the commit list to my feed reader...

Gotcha. I'll probably write something up and post to rails-core, thanks.

http://ryandaigle.com/ is also a useful resource. As is irc.

It's already in my feed reader, but thanks. Maybe I'll have to get on IRC more often... which channel is best for Rails 3 stuff?

This is really great start to porting existing Rails 2.x apps to Rails 3.

Similarly, a compatibility check for existing Rails plugins & gems would be ideal.

This will check through some things (e.g., look for old style generators) and point out known busted plugins, but I plan on doing more thorough checks when the plugin API is stabilized so I know exactly what's going away.

Wow, great. Even if it doesn't fix everything correctly, it'll be nice to have a report card of what to fix manually.

very cool. i wonder if you can make it thorough enough that startups using rails will start with it.

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