On: What We Learned Upgrading To Rails 3 at Harvest

[there]

Harvest also has 32 plugins, 82 gem dependencies

yikes

[steveklabnik → there]

It happens. Check out Shopify: http://blog.shopify.com/2010/11/16/our-upgrade-to-rails-3

    $ bundle show | wc  -l
      95

[imack → steveklabnik]

Did you find that you needed fewer after the upgrade? I'm in the middle of moving my 2.3.5 app to 3.0.3 and am finding that there are fewer plugins as some are now part of rails or made redundant; jrails and subdomain-fu come to mind.

[bjhess → imack]

I don't think we dropped a drastic number of plugins or gems. Probably a few, but then again we added a few as well to keep old features active as we transition out some deprecated Rails patterns.

[steveklabnik → imack]

I don't work there.