Upgrading Rails (and a lot more)

[Alon Salant]

Tony's recent interest in working on Freehub and interest from the
SFBK on doing some feature development has gotten me more interested
in upgrading Rails and the plugins/gems used by Freehub.

The alternative is to do feature development with the current
infrastructure and have more to upgrade later. Even this doesn't quite
work b/c it looks like the state of the art for some plugins (tagging
is what I am looking at) are not compatible with 2.0.2 which is the
version Freehub is on.

One major consideration in doing this is what to do with Markaby - the
templating system being used by Freehub that is now an abandoned
project. I'm thinking that moving to HAML would be a wise move.
http://haml-lang.com/ It's not going anywhere and I'm not going back
to ERB.

I'm still pondering how to do this without completely breaking things.
And I don't want to get in the way of Tony's work. More on that later.

Alon