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Re:Upgrading Airbnb from Rails 2.3 to Rails 3.0 by pluies_public on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @04:43PM (#3426048)
> Why are you blogging about upgrading to Rails 3.0.x when the current stable Rails has been 3.1.x for over 4 months?

They switched to 3.0 quite some time ago:

> Our production instances made the final switch in the week leading up to Thanksgiving

Writing this blog post probably wasn't very high priority.

> How did this happen?

Maybe they were busy creating a great product instead of obsessing about perfect architecture and optimising prematurely?

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Re:Upgrading Airbnb from Rails 2.3 to Rails 3.0 by ctide on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @05:16PM (#3426174)
Maybe they were busy creating a great product instead of obsessing about perfect architecture and optimising prematurely?

I think you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who believes that ensuring all of the servers are running the same code is a 'premature optimization'.

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