Those of you that have purchased the Rails 2 Peepcode can download a free update with these features explained in further detail.
Rails 2.1 was released over the weekend during RailsConf. As always, here’s a list of the latest and greatest features in this release:
Major Rails 2.1 Features and Changes
(sorted by date added – most recent first)
- UTC Migration Versioning
- Specifying Gem Dependencies
- Partial Updates
- Dirty Objects
- Has One :through
- Has Finder Functionality
- Easier Timezones
- Pluggable Controller Caching
Chow down.
tags: ruby, rubyonrails
As someone who owns a copy of “Rails 2” this is awesome news. Thank you Ryan.
Ryan, thank you very much for keeping us mortals in the loop. it is greatly appreciated. Adam
Excellent! Looking forward to the updated pdf.
I’m wondering about the migrations if you migrate an app that was started in Rails 2.0.2 to Rails 2.1? I’d imagine there would be a problem as soon as you create a new migration wouldn’t there be, since the naming schemas are different?