Rails - Jan 2006 - Rails Edge stability - has_many :through

Hi all,

If I was to start developing an application using Edge Rails with the 
view to deploying on Rails 1.1, would I fall foul of lots of bugs, or is 
it relatively stable?

I''d really like has_many :through relationships, to save me dealing
with
HABTM + associations.

Thanks,

Tom

I develop all of my applications on Edge, and when ready to move to
production I freeze the edge version it was last tested on.

Overall though, I have found it to be quite stable. There have been a couple
occurrences, such as the loading issue which spun the Engines into a
cyclical recursive loop. James has fixed this in the edge branch, but other
instances may come into effect.

The trunk is a development version, so you can expect it to be a very
rapidly changing environment. Which is stable if you are living in the
moment :)

-Nb

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 Nathaniel S. H. Brown                           http://nshb.net 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:rails-bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org] On Behalf Of Tom Taylor
> Sent: January 26, 2006 3:27 AM
> To: rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> Subject: [Rails] Rails Edge stability - has_many :through
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> If I was to start developing an application using Edge Rails 
> with the view to deploying on Rails 1.1, would I fall foul of 
> lots of bugs, or is it relatively stable?
> 
> I''d really like has_many :through relationships, to save me 
> dealing with HABTM + associations.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tom
> 
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Edge is reasonably stable, but we do change the API at a whim and
without warning. So if you want to play with the latest, I encourage
you to have a good test suite that''ll catch any bugs or API changes as
you go along.
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