> I've recently been fighting my way through an upgrade of a Rails 2.3 app to run under Rails 3.2; it's a difficult enough task to begin with, and is massively

> I've recently been fighting my way through an upgrade of a Rails 2.3 app to run under Rails 3.2; it's a difficult enough task to begin with, and is massively complicated by the fact that no real documentation exists on how to perform such an upgrade. In what way was McAnally's book insufficient? http://www.railsupgradehandbook.com/ http://www.railsupgradehandbook.com/ > I've led upgrades from PHP 4 to PHP 5 which were both less painful and more quickly completed than the task of upgrading a single, rather small, site, from Rails 2.3 to Rails 3.2 has been. PHP is a language and Rails is a framework. Compare upgrading PHP to upgrading Ruby. The latter is painless. It seems like you should stick with PHP.