[SOLVED] says if i develop a Ruby on Rails application using Rails 2.3.2, will that usually be compatible with Passenger on my hosting company?

says if i develop a Ruby on Rails application using Rails 2.3.2, will that usually be compatible with Passenger on my hosting company?

If i ssh to my hosting company and type rails -v, i get 2.2.2... so looks like they might be using Rails 2.2.2.

So if i develop a Rails app on my Macbook and ftp all files over there, will the Passenger there usually work well with the generated code with the current version of Rails?

Solution

Freeze rails into vendor/rails using the built in rake task. That way your app will ue the version of rails you want it to no matter where you deploy it.

rake rails:freeze:gems

And the easiest way to do a specific version I know of.

rake rails:freeze:edge RELEASE=2.3.2.1

Now your version of rails will go with you where you send your app.

You can unpack other gem dependencies into vendor/gems for any gem you are using and want to be sure that it is available where ever you deploy the application.

rake gems:unpack

And to ensure their dependencies go to:

rake gems:unpack:dependencies

I would also suggest that you verify that they are running the latest version of passenger.