Picky Ruby on Rails news reader may noticed that Ruby on rails framework developers had promised us Ruby on Rails release candidate shortly after RailsConf that took it’s place in June. Ruby on Rails framework developers are aware of such promise. They admit that they didn’t delivered new Ruby on Rails on promised time, but they explain themselves that in the end it is for our benefit, since they “gorged” themselves on fixes and improvements for Ruby on Rails framework.
They quote impressive 842 commit made by 125 different users. But enough talk about historical details, you as a Ruby on Rails developer are interested what is handy in new release. A few highlights:
- Support for the MySQL2 gem, which will take care of MySQL encoding issues on Ruby 1.9.2.
- Shallow routes are back.
- Fixed the autoload issues
- Made the rails command work even when you’re in a subdirectory
- Dealt with a variety of web encoding issues
Mostly, new Ruby on Rails improvements are of minor nature. also it may be worrying a bit, that there are some performance issues with Arel, that translates queries to the database for Activerecord. Ruby on rails framework developer promise that they will overcome these issues in final Ruby on Rails 3.0 version, but time shall tell if they will be able to deliver that promise.
