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Ruby on Rails 2.0 is Done

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-miss-perl dept.

Jamie noted that ruby on rails 2.0 is done. In addition to upgrade and installation instructions, the article lists a number of the more interesting new features in the release which appears to be quite extensive.

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  1. Re:ORM still broken? by FooBarWidget · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's great for you, but Ruby on Rails is not - and isn't intended to be - a framework for redundant distributed DB applications. Ruby on Rails is not trying to be the thing for everybody. And that's exactly what makes it so powerful and easy. Indeed - turning it into something for everybody actually makes it worse. I'd like to see some proof that composite primary keys are so important in web applications. So far I've seen no convincing evidence. Despite all the complaints about composite primary keys, new Rails websites are written everything, even by high-profile organizations like IBM, NASA, Oracle and Yahoo. And they seem to function just fine.

    If you really, really, really, really need composite primary keys, you can still fallback to raw SQL queries in Rails.