How will we support Rails 2 and Rails 3 in the Commands and Snippets?

[drnic]

I think the migration of projects from Rails 2 to Rails 3 will be slow. Lots of people will want this textmate bundle to "work" appropriately for their current project.

We'll need away for the commands/snippets that exist on rails 2 & 3, but behave differently, to function.

Perhaps there won't be many of them anyway. For example, the rails 2 routing snippets (maprs, etc) aren't applicable in rails 3. New snippets will exist.

[DBA]

As a user, when rails 3 officially comes out, I wouldn't mind this repository to migrate to rails 3 and another one to be created for rails 2, with some sort of "branching / fork" relationship between them.

This said, as a user, I would only find it natural if I had to download rails2-bundle for an older project.

Hope this user insight makes sense and helps, drnic.

[drnic]

We could have three grammars: common "Ruby on Rails" (source.ruby.rails), with two edge cases per project: "Ruby on Rails 3" (source.ruby.rails.rails3) and "Ruby on Rails 2" (source.ruby.rails.rails2).

Then you'd pick Rails 3 or Rails 2 and only see the correct snippets. Ultimately it wouldn't matter about having separate tmbundles; it would be the grammar/syntax files.

[DBA]

That would be an interesting approach that allows the maintenance of a single repo.

[barmstrong]

Simplest approach may be the best:

1. create a fork or branch to maintain an old version for Rails 2.
2. dive head first into moving master towards Rails 3, removing Rails 2 stuff where necessary

[jhaungs]

When you use the new Rails 3 erb formats, e.g. <%= form_for %> (adding the = sign), you get a syntax error with Ctrl-Shift-V.

I figured out that the bundle uses /usr/bin/erb, and Rails 3 uses a different erb in its gem directory. This explains why TextMate sees a syntax error, and Rails 3 does not.

How can I get TextMate to use the Rails 3 erb instead of /usr/bin/erb ? It's not clear to me whether the new erb can be set up as a standalone shell command; it's used in Rails 3 via "require". And it's not clear that you can just replace /usr/bin/erb without all the extra erubis code being added to some path.

[ChuckJHardy]

It really would be great to get a resolution on this issue. Great Bundle, not used due to Rails 3 Issues.