I’ve had a number of people contact me over the last couple of months (which unfortunately have been far more hectic for me than usual) with questions about upgrading some of the books projects to the current version of Rails 2.3.5.

Since the projects in the book were all written in 1.2.6, and Rails has a bad habit of having non-backward compatible changes – this has caused some issues for people. Unfortunately – I don’t have time to update all the books projects but thought I would at least put together a Rails 2.3.5 compatible version of Monkey Tasks for people to use as a reference.

You can download it from here.

One key thing to remember is that this version is Rails 2.3.5 COMPATIBLE, which is quite different from being up to date with Rails 2.3.5 standards. A lot has changed in Rails and in how Rails developers build applications since the book was published and there were quite a few times during my updates that I was wanting to throw huge chunks of code away to update them to the newer standards, however I thought that might cause even more confusion so I kept my changes more in line with how the book was written.