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Jon Brady
10,868 Pointsodot_app and rails 4.2.1
hi, iv been following along with the rails build a todo list app... as if learning this was not hard enough iv been doing it on a new linux machine that im not used to... i have rails 4.2.1 installed and have just noticed that the version of rails that the tutorial is using is 4.0.... then i saw that there was a separate workshop on updating that rails version to 4.1 . From what i gather the version im using is of no use to me at all for this tutorial. Is this correct? regarding the odot _app (todo list) iv come to a point where tests that should pass are not... iv tryed for many hours to get it working .... any incite would be appreciated.
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Sage Elliott
30,003 PointsYou can use version 4.0 if you want as you follow along the tutorials, but if you choose to use 4.2 a lot of the issues are probably documented in the forum. I used 4.2 when I went trough it and I didn't have too many issues. When I do I either look in the treehouse forum or google the error message and figure out what the differences are. I kind of prefer to do this because it makes me better at asking the right questions and forces me to poke around the rails framework a little more. I've been using tutorials based on 3.2 somewhere else and the differences are very minor. Most of the concepts are the same.
Jon Brady
10,868 PointsJon Brady
10,868 Pointsoh and if anyone is wondering why I got 4.2.1 instead of an earlier version that i knew would be ok for the odot app.... it's because I followed the TREEHOUSE tut on installing rails on Ubuntu.... and they use brightworks (i think its called)... installing rails this way leaves you (or me anyway ;p) no choice but to get the very latest version. Also why did Treehouse not mention installing RVM in their Ubuntu tutorial... surely this would have made things easier?