Deploying Gemstash

Bundler is here for the rescue to keep Gemstash up to date! Create a Gemfile pointing to Gemstash:

# ./Gemfile
source "https://rubygems.org"
gem "gemstash"

Then bundle to create your Gemfile.lock. When you are ready to upgrade, simply bundle update. You may need to run gemstash via bundle exec. Alternatively, you can gem uninstall gemstash and gem install gemstash when you want to upgrade.

Gemstash will automatically run any necessary migrations, so updating the gem is all that needs to be done.

It is probably wise to stop Gemstash before upgrading, then starting again once you are done:

$ bundle exec gemstash stop
$ bundle update
$ bundle exec gemstash start

Downgrading

It is not recommended to go backwards in Gemstash versions. Migrations may have run that could leave the database in a bad state.