How to update a Rails 3 project to latest gems?

Question

I created a new Ruby on Rails 3.0.1 project, and then globally updated gems to 3.0.3.

After some digging around, I ended up editing the project Gemfile to say "3.0.3" instead of "3.0.1", and then ran "rake rails:update", and now it appears that everything is up-to-date.

However, I can't find any references on the Internet for doing this with Rails 3, so I want to make sure this is the right way of doing things. Confirmation appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

If you're changing the version in your Gemfile, you should be running bundle update so that all gems are updated to their latest versions specified by the Gemfile. rake rails:update is used for updating things such as the Prototype assets to the latest version.