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The Ruby on Rails crew has stamped the final release of the v1.2 series of Rails. Go get it with your standard gem update command. They did a good job this time keeping changes within the gem itself. If you want your existing v1.2.3 app to use the same code base as a fresh v1.2.4 app, you only need to make the following changes:

config/boot.rb:

Remove the following code from the top of the file (sorry, the indenting is off in this post due to WordPress issues with the <code> tags):

unless defined?(RAILS_ROOT)
root_path = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..')

unless RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /(:?mswin|mingw)/
require 'pathname'
root_path = Pathname.new(root_path).cleanpath(true).to_s
end

RAILS_ROOT = root_path
end

And in its place add the following code snippet:

RAILS_ROOT = "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/.." unless defined?(RAILS_ROOT)

Finally, just update the RAILS_GEM_VERSION constant in your config/environment.rb to ‘1.2.4’ – that’s it.