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Wait until you have to update your rails and all your gems are no longer compatible. Edit: removed "update for a security patch" because it's just updated. E

• steveklabnik 13y ago
  The Rails team generally provides patch files for security updates, specifically so that if upgrading Rails is not possible for you, you can just patch your Rails. Especially thanks to Bundler, it's quite easy: http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2012-10-04-run-rails-with-custom-patches http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2012-10-04-run-rails-with... It's true that if you're running a _very_ old version of Rails, you may not get a patch. There are community projects like Rails LTS that help with this, though.
• ollysb 13y ago
  I think it's fair to say that you have to rise with the tide a bit if you're going to use rails. The projects I work on tend to be continuously developed though so this has never been a pain point.