rails 3.0.x in F15

[Mohammed Morsi]

  Based on my discussions with the community and various parties that 
have a vested interest in this, I feel that it is a good idea to move 
the rubygem-rails packages to rails 3.0.x for F15 so that we don't get 
left behind and stay up to date w/ the latest / greatest upstream releases.

Unfortunately this process isn't as simple as updating the 6 rails 
packages (rails itself and the active/action* packages), there are many 
various gems which will need to be updated as well to work with Rails 3. 
Based on my findings w/ deltacloud [1], the update process itself isn't 
so difficult, but some of the following gems will need to be updated in 
Fedora for things to properly work. Most likely more will need to be as 
well, these are just the ones that I've found, but conversely all of 
these may not need to be updated, as I installed Rails 3 via gem which 
pulled in the latest version of all these packages.

* rails, activesupport, activerecord, actionpack, activeresource, actionmailer   -  2.3.8 ->  3.0.1   (mmorsi)
* compass                 -  0.8.17  ->  0.10.6 (mmorsi)
* cucumber  -  0.9.0    ->  0.9.3   (kanarip, mfojtik, mkent, stahnma)
* erubis        -  2.6.5    ->  2.6.6  (mkent)
* gherkin      -  2.2.4    ->  2.2.9   (mfojtik)
* haml          -  3.0.17  ->  3.0.23  (mkent, kanarip)
* polyglot     -  0.2.5    ->  0.3.1   (kanarip, stahnma)
* rack           -  1.1.0    ->  1.2.1 (kanarip, stahnma)
* rack-test   -  0.5.4    ->   0.5.6   (mfojtik)
* rspec         -  1.3.0    ->  2.0.1  (stahnma)
* simple-navigation - 3.0.0   ->  3.0.2 (mfojtik)
* sinatra       -  1.0        ->  1.1.0 (mfojtik)
* sqlite3-ruby  - 1.2.4  ->  1.3.2   (kanarip, stahnma)
* term-ansicolor - 1.0.3 ->  1.0.5  (hpejakle, mfojtik)
* thor           - 0.13.6  ->  0.14.3 (mkent)
* treetop     - 1.3.0   ->  1.4.8  (stahnma)


Also the following are new gems which will need to be packaged

* arel  (1.0.1)
* autotest (4.4.2)
* bundler  (1.0.3)
* database_cleaner (0.6.0)
* factory_girl_rails (1.0)
* i18n (0.4.2)
* mail (2.2.29)
* tilt  (1.1)
* timecop (0.3.5)
* rack-mount (0.6.13)
* railties (3.0.1)
* rspec-core, rspec-expectations, rspec-mocks, rspec-rails (2.0.1)
* tzinfo (0.3.23)


In the upcoming weeks (most likely starting after the new year) I will 
be looking to updating the rails packages themselves and coordinating 
updates with the owners of these gems. I also think it might be a good 
idea to submit a feature request for Fedora 15 for Rails 3.

Thoughts, comments, and help with any and all of this would be very much 
appreciated. Thanks alot.

   -Mo

[1]  http://mo.morsi.org/blog/node/331