From charley.baker at gmail.com Sun Dec 16 01:31:59 2007 From: charley.baker at gmail.com (Charley Baker) Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:31:59 -0700 Subject: [Wtr-development] Rake task for deprecated methods Message-ID: Hi all, I was looking at Rails 2.0 upgrade instructions, and the first point jumped out at me. There is a rake task available for deprecated methods in order to figure out the effort required in moving your application from earlier versions of Rails to the latest. http://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/2007/12/03/rails-2-upgrade-notes As we move forward with newer versions of Watir, it makes sense to me to consider doing the same thing for an ongoing list of deprecated methods by version. It'll have to be modified somewhat - grep won't work in Windows, but should be easy enough to convert that to something that will, perhaps something like rak: http://www.daniellucraft.com/blog/2007/11/rak-a-grep-replacement-in-pure-ruby/ This at least seems like an interesting start to making upgrading less difficult as there will be larger changes to watir's api in future versions. Thoughts? -Charley -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/wtr-development/attachments/20071215/e88a0930/attachment.html From charley.baker at gmail.com Sun Dec 16 01:31:59 2007 From: charley.baker at gmail.com (Charley Baker) Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:31:59 -0700 Subject: [Wtr-development] Rake task for deprecated methods Message-ID: Hi all, I was looking at Rails 2.0 upgrade instructions, and the first point jumped out at me. There is a rake task available for deprecated methods in order to figure out the effort required in moving your application from earlier versions of Rails to the latest. http://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/2007/12/03/rails-2-upgrade-notes As we move forward with newer versions of Watir, it makes sense to me to consider doing the same thing for an ongoing list of deprecated methods by version. It'll have to be modified somewhat - grep won't work in Windows, but should be easy enough to convert that to something that will, perhaps something like rak: http://www.daniellucraft.com/blog/2007/11/rak-a-grep-replacement-in-pure-ruby/ This at least seems like an interesting start to making upgrading less difficult as there will be larger changes to watir's api in future versions. Thoughts? -Charley -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From charley.baker at gmail.com Sun Dec 16 01:31:59 2007 From: charley.baker at gmail.com (Charley Baker) Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:31:59 -0700 Subject: [Wtr-development] Rake task for deprecated methods Message-ID: Hi all, I was looking at Rails 2.0 upgrade instructions, and the first point jumped out at me. There is a rake task available for deprecated methods in order to figure out the effort required in moving your application from earlier versions of Rails to the latest. http://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/2007/12/03/rails-2-upgrade-notes As we move forward with newer versions of Watir, it makes sense to me to consider doing the same thing for an ongoing list of deprecated methods by version. It'll have to be modified somewhat - grep won't work in Windows, but should be easy enough to convert that to something that will, perhaps something like rak: http://www.daniellucraft.com/blog/2007/11/rak-a-grep-replacement-in-pure-ruby/ This at least seems like an interesting start to making upgrading less difficult as there will be larger changes to watir's api in future versions. Thoughts? -Charley -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: