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Rails 3.0 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the really-right-rails dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After two years of gestation, 4 betas, 2 release candidates and thousands of commits by 1600+ contributors, the result of the succesful merge of the Merb and Rails frameworks (and teams) is now out and ready to transport your web applications on all new shiny tracks."

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  1. It's a nice framework by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've avoided Rails for years due to the community's reputation. So against my better judgement, I decided to build a project on the Rails 3 Beta, thinking that some of frameworks new features made it hard to ignore.

    And you know what? It's a really nice framework. Nice enough that in the future, I'll probably be using Ruby on Rails instead of PHP or Python when the project allows.

    But I do wish the community would grow up.

    1. Re:It's a nice framework by Bogtha · · Score: 4, Insightful

      This is something I wrote a while back: These are not the actions of people who care about writing the best code possible, these are the actions of people with egos chasing features and attention.

      I haven't kept up with Rails development, precisely due to attitudes like these, but hopefully the injection of Merb will bring with it an injection of - yes I'll say that word - professionalism.

      --
      Bogtha Bogtha Bogtha
    2. Re:It's a nice framework by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
      perhaps you should consider choking to death on a sack of dicks.

      Yeah, how dare he say that the Rails community is immature!

  2. Re:Too many changes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    2.3.x is still supported, actually they're working on 2.3.9 as we speak.
    It's true that the Rails eco system moves forward at a good pace, but that's a good sign to me. it means ideas are brewing and accepted.
    A sign of good health :)

  3. Great release by jgeiger · · Score: 5, Informative

    A lot of the changes have made the code much more modular. You don't need to include everything if you don't need it. This also allows you to plug in other database adapters if you want. One of the nice routing changes allows you to call Rack or Sinatra applications from within your Rails application. I'm really looking forward to using this going forward.

  4. Re:Just upgraded from 3.0.0.rc2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When RC2 was released they said that they had to work on the ORM layer to speed things up before final release, less than a week later and the final release is here without any significant speed-up...