Ruby on Rails 1.0 Released

Simon (S2) writes "Ruby on Rails 1.0 has been released. From the announcement: 'Rails 1.0 is mostly about making all the work we've been doing solid. So it's not packed with new features over 0.14.x, but has spit, polish, and long nights applied to iron out kinks and ensure that it works mostly right, most of the time, for most of the people.' " The Ruby on Rails website has also been given a new look.

Comments

Re:Commercial equivalent is...?

[wilburpb]

Perhaps Coldfusion, WebObjects, .net, or J2EE+Struts (depending on your definition of 'commercial')

Re:Commercial/Enterprise use?

[CyricZ]

There is a list of users at:

http://www.rubyonrails.org/applications

Perl people, check out Catalyst

[kstumpf]

This is an MVC framework for Perl that resembles RoR in a lot of ways.

http://catalyst.perl.org/

It's very nice so far, especially the controller portion. There's lots of addons and plugins for it, all of which are entirely optional. It's actually very open-ended and easy to extend.

I use the controller classes extensively, but write my own model, view, and support classes. Catalyst culture seems to encourage Class::DBI parentage as a base model class, but it's simple to roll your own (I hate CDBI, so I based mine on Ima::DBI instead). Your classes can work independently of Catalyst... it imposes no restrictions or inheritance constraints on you. Worth checking out.

Give ruby a quick try first

[mixonic]

I heartily suggest that the curious among you check out http://tryruby.hobix.com/. It's a great, quick interactive introduction to ruby. You can kick around the tires (so to speak) without needing to do anything more than visit the webpage. It's a great language with or without rails.

Also a great example of Ajaxy goodness, not to buzzword it too much. It's written by the affluent and creative why. Check out his neat-o blog too: http://redhanded.hobix.com/

-mix