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Upgrading Avalon 7.0 to Avalon 7.1

Upgrading Avalon 7.0 to Avalon 7.1

Jun 15, 2020

See the Avalon 7.1 release notes for more information.

Requirements

Avalon 7.1 and above requires Ruby 2.5 or newer. If you're using RVM, simply run

rvm list # Get current ruby version, eg 2.2.1 rvm upgrade 2.2.1 2.5.5 # Installs Ruby 2.5.5 and migrate gemsets, wrappers, aliases and environment files

Config changes

Old setting

New setting

Note

Old setting

New setting

Note

email:
  mailer:
    smtp:
      address: 'mail-relay.iu.edu'
      port: 587
      enable_starttls_auto: false

email:
  mailer: :smtp  # or aws_sdk if using Amazon SES
  config:
    address: mail-relay.university.edu
    port: 25
    enable_starttls_auto: false



Upgrade Steps

For Manual Installations

  1. Download and deploy new code from the avalon repository.

  2. Update gems, and migrate DB

bundle install --with production --without development test RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake db:migrate

3. Update JS dependencies

yarn install # in Avalon root dir

4. Update configuration, see Config changes above

5. Restart passenger (if using)

passenger-config restart-app

For Docker Installations

Update new code from avalon-docker

git checkout master git pull

Pull or Rebuild Avalon container. 

docker-compose pull avalon # or docker-compose build --no-cache avalon

Check config changes then replace the Avalon containers

docker-compose up avalon worker