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Ruby On Rails Goes 1.1

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-traveling-at-breakneck-speeds dept.

MrByte420 writes "The Ruby On Rails team today released version 1.1 of the web framework. From the announcement: 'Rails 1.1 boasts more than 500 fixes, tweaks, and features from more than 100 contributors. Most of the updates just make everyday life a little smoother, a little rounder, and a little more joyful.' New features were examined back in February at Scottraymond.net and include Javascript/AJAX integration, enhancements to active record, and enhanced testing suites. Not to mention upgrading this time promises to be a piece of cake."

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  1. Re:Getting started by binner1 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I recently finished the Pick Axe book 2nd ed and would highly recommend it. Like one of the other replies notes, it's a Ruby book, not a Rails book, but I agree you should learn Ruby first. The first edition of this book is available for free on the web at various locations (eg: http://www.rubycentral.com/book/). I started using this several years ago but got sidetracked. The recent Rails fuss has grabbed my attention again, so I finally sat down and dug in. It's now my language of choice for most programming tasks (quickly replacing Perl altogether for my needs). I've yet to do any Rails work, but have a few personal projects in mind that might be good testing for it. Ruby definitely stands on it's own as a language, Rails is just a beautiful use of a beautiful language.

    Cheers.
    -Ben