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> For a major release, 10 hours may be necessary. [...] I'm for the most part a Rails novice. It's interesting that a Rails novice can state confidently that u
by subsection1h 13y ago
> For a major release, 10 hours may be necessary. [...] I'm for the most part a Rails novice.
It's interesting that a Rails novice can state confidently that upgrading between major releases of Rails requires up to 10 hours of work, regardless of the size of the app.
- bdcravens 13y agoI'm not a web application novice (been building web apps since 1998, writing production code in about a half dozen languages or so), and I've done a few version upgrades in the year or so I've been working with Rails on and off. I don't think my estimate is too far off, but obviously there's an asterisk in there. I call myself a novice since I feel it's better to err on the side of caution. Also read my comment in context. I was responding to a specific comment where the app size was pretty well implied. Also when I said "2-4 was doable" I wasn't being philosophical; I was stating how long it took (I didn't say an app of any size, but a small app) (obviously my choice of words was poor to express meaning, but that's pretty par for the course for my HN posts)