Can someone describe to me how these jQuery releases make their way into Rails 3.1 land? Does the maintainer of https://github.com/rails/jquery-rails do an update and then it's up to us Rails users to execute a "bundle update"?
Yes, most likely. And hopefully the version number is incremented semantically so `bundle update` doesn't break anyone that really needs 1.6.
If you haven't tried rails-behaviors[1], I recommend it. It's a modular, drop-in replacement for jquery_ujs, and I think @josh will update it shortly for 1.7
The quickest way to drop it in vendor/assets. Anything there will override any gems. so `//= require jquery` will just find your local copy instead. Shouldn't have to change any requires.
It looks like jQuery versions get updated occasionally in that repo, but you'll have to check and see when 1.7 gets put in.
My recommendation would be to maintain dependency versions yourself, i.e. download the version of jQuery you want to use and //= require jquery in application.js - then grab a new version of jQuery whenever you want it updated
Correct. You could also manually download the latest jQuery and include it.
The gem is a very thin wrapper around jQuery, jQuery UI and jquery_ujs, which basically makes the files available for inclusion in your manifests, and adds a jQuery specific helper method for your tests.
