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Restructured Ruby on Rails 3.0 Hits Beta

Posted by kdawson on from the insert-gems-and-trains-reference dept.

Curlsman informs us that the first beta of Ruby on Rails 3.0 has been released (release notes here). Rails founder David Heinemeier Hansson blogged that RoR 3.0 "feels lighter, more agile, and easier to understand." This release is the first the Merb team has participated in. Merb is a model-view-controller framework written in Ruby, and they joined the RoR development effort over a year ago. Reader Curlsman asks, "So, is version 3 of RoR going to be a big deal, more of the same (good or bad), or just churning technology?"

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  1. Re:I think everyone would agree here... by k33l0r · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've never heard that Rails would make "programmers obsolete", in fact it seems to be the opposite; if you look at the official Rails site you'll notice that the biggest tag-line is "optimized for developer happiness".

    Rails makes developers happier, not unemployed. What's more, anyone can write bad code in any language, so pointing to Twitter is hardly a conclusive argument. There are lots of big Rails sites out there, including Basecamp, the original Rails application.

    For a better (and longer) write up on scaling Rails, I refer you to this article.

  2. A ton of Rails 3 Beta links by Peter+Cooper · · Score: 4, Informative

    Over at Ruby Inside we did (and are maintaining) a roundup of ~36 Rails 3.0 beta links/articles (it's up to about 40 now, I think). If you've got Rails 3.0 installed and want to know how to use X or Y or want to learn some of the back story/motivation, the links should come in useful. They're only things that are actually worth reading. Well, mostly.. :-)

  3. Re:Standard Slashdot Ruby comment form by Hurricane78 · · Score: 4, Informative

    What the...
    My friend, the fact that you misinterpreted my little funny and random word-play as having a “knee-jerk reaction” of an “ignorant troll” really shows, that you should go out more often, and have a little fun.
    Because you are starting to see assholes everywhere.

    See, the problem with text-only communication is, that we read it in the (inner) tone of voice of what we expect to read. Which is controlled by our own mood.
    So if we expect ignorant trolling everywhere, that’s what we will always see. Which makes them that, in our reality.

    And because I just recently realized that I did the same... man... it’s not good for you. You are getting angry where you could have a little laugh etc. Basically making your own life bad. :/

    Look at the moderators. They got it right, and even modded you funny, because of the good mood. :)
    Chill, relax, kiss a girl. :)

    P.S.: This is a dual-purpose comment. In case parent comment was really meant funny, it’s meant funny too. In case it’s not, this one also isn’t. :D

    --
    Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
  4. Re:I think everyone would agree here... by rsax · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thus they have made no allowance for dropping back to raw SQL queries.

    Ignoring your inaccurate remarks about the core Rails developers, do you care to expand on the above mentioned claim?

    count_by_sql: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M002276

    find_by_sql: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M002267