The Latest in Rails

There has been a flurry of cool, new features and news involving rails in the past few weeks. Below is a linkfest. Enjoy!

Stop Littering In Your Environment File – Rails now has a few places you can store application configurations.
ActiveRecord Caching Provided in Actions
“Cookie Based Sessions are the New Default ":http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2007/2/21/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-cookie-based-sessions – Controversial. File system sessions are out and cookies are in.
Expanded Caching Scope – Model caching is now active record wide.
.rhtml and .rxml to Die a Slow and Painful Death – rhtml templates are to be phased out between now and Rails 3.0. Fine by me.
Mime::Type Convenience Methods – Handy little request.format.html? and the like convenience methods.
Managing Rails Versions with Capistrano – This is such a cool idea. I just switched to it this morning.
Automatic 304 for Views Not Modified
Test/Spec on Rails Into – I am a huge fan of test/spec.
Healthcare Startup Takes Rails Mainstream – These guys are doing some seriously interesting work with rails, gems and plugins.
Validatable – Validations for non AR:Base models. Jay Fields comes through again.
GeoKit – Really cool plugin for geocoding. Integrates into active record.
Forwardable addition – One of many great ideas by Jay Fields. Basically it pimps out delegate which I have brought up before.

Meekish
Feb 25, 2007

This list is super useful. I would love to see more posts like this.
John Nunemaker
Feb 26, 2007

@Meekish – Good to know. If you aren’t subscribed to the quick tips, then you should. I actually combined all of these from the quick tips list. Maybe from now on, I’ll do a once a week the latest in Rails for those that aren’t following the quick tips.