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How do I upgrade Rails?


I am new to Ruby and Rails, as well as all this command line melarky. So please bear with me.

I have installed, RubyGems, Homebrew, RVM, Rails etc, by following various tutorials.

I think I have all of this going now, but when I type:

rails --version

I get, 3.2.12. I notice that Rails 4 is out. How do I upgrade to this version?

If I do:

gem install rails

Even doing:

gem update rails

I still get 3.2.12.

Any ideas?

UPDATE

When trying a few options here, I get this message returned...

Michaels-MacBook-Pro:~ ParanoidAndroid$ gem install rails --version=4.0
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing rails:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p392/bin/ruby extconf.rb
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
details.  You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
    --with-opt-dir
    --without-opt-dir
    --with-opt-include
    --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
    --with-opt-lib
    --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
    --with-make-prog
    --without-make-prog
    --srcdir=.
    --curdir
    --ruby=/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p392/bin/ruby
    --with-atomic_reference-dir
    --without-atomic_reference-dir
    --with-atomic_reference-include
    --without-atomic_reference-include=${atomic_reference-dir}/include
    --with-atomic_reference-lib
    --without-atomic_reference-lib=${atomic_reference-dir}/lib
/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p392/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:381:in `try_do': The compiler failed to generate an executable file. (RuntimeError)
You have to install development tools first.
    from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p392/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:461:in `try_link0'
    from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p392/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:712:in `try_run'
    from extconf.rb:26:in `<main>'


Gem files will remain installed in /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/atomic-1.1.14 for inspection.
Results logged to /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/atomic-1.1.14/ext/gem_make.out

Seems there's an error happening. Any further ideas?

Thanks again everyone!


Solution

  • If you are using RVM then you should create a seperate gemset first like:

    rvm gemset create whateverName
    

    in this example I will install rails 4

    rvm install 2.0.0
    
    rvm list  
    
    rvm 2.0.0 
    

    ^^^^(you may need to copy and paste the version number exactly here as it was displayed in rvm list)

    rvm gemset create rails4
    
    rvm gemset use rails4
    

    add the following to your gemfile for existing apps

    gem 'rails', '4.0.0'
    

    then run

    bundle update rails
    

    or do following to just install the gem

    gem install rails --version=4.0
    

    UPDATE

    If you havne't installed Xcode 4.5 CLI tools then you will need to

    Preferences > Downloads > Components

    DMG

    https://developer.apple.com/downloads

    you may then also need to use homebrew to update gcc

    brew install apple-gcc42

    the following link has all the information you will need:

    https://thoughtbot.com/blog/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-riding-a-mountain-lion