Ruby On Rails 1.2 Released
Scooter[AMMO] writes "David Heinemeier Hansson sent a post to the Rails 1.2. This new version adds a slew of buff and polish to the rest of the system, as well several new features like RESTful interfaces, response formats, improved multi-byte support, and more. If you haven't checked out the web application framework that aims to renew joy within its users, give it a look. You may be amazed at how easy it makes things without sacrificing power or functionality."
One of the great things with Rails is that it is so easy to update. There's three easy steps: Step 1: gem update rails --include-dependencies Step 2: Press return Step 3: There's no step 3
Thanks to the Rails developers!
Ruby on Rails is certainly a giant step forward in increasing programmer productivity. The new REST support is great, but I must say that the web based SOAP debugging interface made using SOAP with Rails painless.
A little off topic, but for my customer I integrate Rails with back end Common Lisp code - so far just using home grown REST support at both ends. Eventually, I would like to get the time to generate compiled Lisp libraries directly linked to Ruby when everything is runnng on a single server.
BTW, I created a simply Ruby and Ruby Rails news clipping web site, mostly for my own use, but it might be useful for you: http://rubyplanet.net/