Rails 2.0 Preview Release 1 was released a couple of days ago. The original idea was of this post to go through all the changelogs and find out all the stuff I thought was cool and list it here. The problem is that there’s too much cool stuff. url=http://blog.rubyonrails.org/2007/9/30/rails-2-0-0-preview-releaseDHH summed it up quite nicely./url
My favourites are:
- has_one and has_many for restful routes. For example, termmap.resources :forums, :has_many => :topics/term.
- Sexy migrations.
- The way it loads faster, mashing all the javascript/css into one file so it only gets two files (one for js, one for css) instead of 6 or 7.
- Instead of specifying termtopic_path(@topic)/term for a topics path, now you can do termtopic_path/term and Rails will know what you’re talking about.
One thing I’m annoyed at is that routes like termforum_edit_topic_path(forum,topic) /term to edit a topic now become: termedit_forum_topic_path(forum,topic)/term Going through each page and finding all the routes that use this will be a pain, and I’m considering making a small ruby script to do it for me.
TOMORROW, I hope to get the LPC report up!