I'm working on a Rails app that currently uses Rails 1.2, so I'm now quite a long way behind the latest stable release (Rails 2.3). How should I go about the process of moving to a newer version of Rails? Should I upgrade one point release at a time or straight to Rails 2.3? How do I find out what has changed between versions of R...
Our office uses SQL Server 2000, and by and large it has served our needs well. I'm looking into the possibility of upgrading to SQL 2005 or 2008 because of the new features not found in 2000 (when I saw Index usage statistics which told me which Indexes were the most used and which were never used, that blew me away). I'm not too conc...
With the upcoming end of life (EOL) of Java 5.0. We need to upgrade our enterprise application to work with Java 6. The application can be deployed on both WebLogic, WebSphere & JBoss. (It's up to the customer's choice) Does anyone have an experience with such an upgrade? What issues should we encounter? What pitfalls we should avoid? ...
Hi all, I heard on the grapevine that Microsoft will be releasing SQL Server 2008 R2 within a year. Though I initially thought this was a patch for the just released 2008 version, I realised that it’s actually a completely different version that you would have to pay for. (Am I correct, if you had SQL Server 2008, would you have to pay...
Basically I am upgrading from 1.1 to .NET 3.5 SP1 and replacing an old .NET 1.1 WebForms application with its newer .NET 3.5 version. I run the .net 3.5 sp1 installer (dotnetfx35setup.exe) I run the crystal reports redistributable installer I set up a new application pool I set up a new website using the directory with the new files, u...
Recently, I made a decision to upgrade my svn repository from v1.5 to v1.6. After I run the upgrading command then I saw the message left in CMD windows. D:\svn>svnadmin upgrade repo Repository lock acquired. Please wait; upgrading the repository may take some time... Upgrade completed. D:\svn>_ Ya!! It seems great... but.... How d...
1)What are the best practices of building, patches? 2)Is it possible to build patch between major upgrade(Product code is changed) build? 3)How to ship content(static files) update for a product We tried to do this through patch but is was taking lot of time to update just 200 files, basically our requirement is that we want to ship p...
I've now saved a bit of money for the hardware upgrade. What I'd like to know, which is the easiest way to measure which part of hardware is the bottleneck for compiling and should be upgraded? Are there any clever techniques I could use? I've looked into perfmon, but it has too many counters and isn't very helpful without exact knowled...
I've tried to upgrade a working GWT 1.5.2 application to 1.6.4 using maven to build. After fixing all errors and updating all deprecated calls, it compiles nicely. But when I try to start the application nothing happens, because (according to Firebug) the files I try to download is http://localhost:8080/softwarename/com.myCompany.Wor...
Hi friends, Coming straight to the point i am facing problem while upgrading an Higher version over Lower version. i have implemented multilingual support; Assume that older version being installed in French while doing upgrade it is coming in English which is my Operating System language; in fact it should show in French. please help ...
My development machine is running Windows XP SP2 (and IIS 5.1 by implication). Until recently our deployment environment was based around Windows Server 2003 (and therefore IIS 6.0). We are about to move to Windows Server 2008 (and therefore IIS 7.0) for a new project. Our projects use ASP.NET MVC and WCF Services. Are there any key ...
I am a web applications developer stuck working on a Windows machine. Today I got an update notification asking me to upgrade Internet Explorer to version 8. I previously had IE 8 installed during the beta, but uninstalled it due to inconsistencies between it's 'compatibility mode' and a stand-alone version of IE 7 (very weird, albeit ...
I recently asked a question that got shot down for being too strongly worded. I'm having another go today because it's something I really am concerned about and I really do want feedback and ideas from the smart people on SO. IE6 isn't quite the bane of my existence, but it's close. I'm a web-developer and spend too much time fixing thi...
I've got a Rails 1.2.3 application that I need to launch on a new server, which has Rails 2.1.0 As I expected, just putting up the 1.2.3 code and trying to run with 2.1 fails. I don't know enough about Rails to know what things to change myself, so my current plan is to generate a new project using 2.1.0 and then move the code myself m...
I am developing a survey invitation that can be embedded in many sites. To present the invitation I am using Modalbox, a javascript library that shows an animated modal box over a semi-transparent overlay. This Modalbox library depends on Prototype and script.aculo.us/effects libraries. The invitation will be dynamically embedded in sit...
I just upgraded an app from rails 1.2.3 to rails 2.0.2 (I tried 2.3.2 first and failed). I had to make a few plugin tweaks, but overall went smoothly. That is, until I realized my flashes weren't working. So I then downgraded back to 1.2.3, and still receive the following error: ActionView::TemplateError (wrong number of arguments (0...
How do you use WiX to create a second service pack for your app? I’ve released SP1, and that installer works fine. But I’m having some difficulty with SP2. My current WiX setup upgrades from the original (RTM) version correctly. But if I try to upgrade from SP1, the files simply don’t update, although it shows as SP2 in Add/Remove Pr...
So I have been developing against the iphone 3.0 beta's and have just gone to upgrade to the final version released this week. however in itunes it says that i am currently using the latest version. any iphone developers out there know how do you upgrade to final version of 3.0? ...
Hi all iPhone developers, can anybody knows that, when i am uploading my new version of application to app store for upgrading it. if there is change in my databse so it needs to delete older version to take effect. Now, when user upgrade it , then apple will remove first app and download newone or it just upgrade the application? ...
We have a product that uses a Reference from a 3rd party supplier. With the release of their new product they have renamed this Reference to a new name. What we want to do is have the one version of our application compiled so that it can run against both the old and new names of the library. There is basically no change, only 1 metho...