Frictionless Floor

Rails 1.1

Posted by David Harris Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:35:00 GMT

Wow, so that was different. :)

So I make a post that has some ruby code you can do with rails, that lets you basically chain database relationships into a chain of objects through a ”:through” declaration, when I realized the current stable Typo doesn’t have syntax highlighting support. So I tried to upgrade to the SVN trunk, likely at the exact moment my host did the upgrade to Rails 1.1.

So I was stuck with my old installation with a new database, a new installation that I wanted, and neither working because 1.1 broke it.

In the end, I just wanted Typo back up. Luckily, I’d dumped the mysql database before that. Probably took that from working with SQL Server too much. :) So I cleaned out the databases, restored the old one, put my symbolic links back to the old installation, and tried it out. Didn’t work. So, in the interest of someone with the same problem coming across this, I applied this patch from Typo’s ticketing system and it fixed everything (reassociated the rails libraries to 1.0).

It’s a shame too, because from the little I’ve looked at Typo code, it looks like a lot of the stuff they hack around to get database stuff to work could be completely replaced by some of the features in rails 1.1. Though apparently they are working diligently on it, so here’s hoping for some code refactoring and 1.1 compatibility before Typo 4 is released.