Seems things in the Rails world are moving faster and fast, but it could be just me. Congrats to the Rails dev team for their release this morning of Ruby on Rails 3.2!
So we didn’t quite make the December release date as we intended, but hey, why break a good tradition and start hitting release targets now! In any case, your patience has been worldly rewarded young grasshopper: Rails 3.2 is done, baked, tested, and ready to roll!
Biggest thing in here for Ruby Newbies I think is the explain queries, which will show exactly what’s going on and help with debugging and performance tuning. Other things of note is a faster dev mode, an active record key/value store (look out noSQL databases!) and much more.
Manning books contacted me today to update about the Rails 3 in Action book that I reviewed last month. There are new discount codes available. Use the discount code rails337 for a 37% discount if you purchase it over at the Manning site.
I received a hard copy of the book yesterday from my contact at Manning and I have to say it’s a great looking book, and satisfyingly heavy
Really interesting article from the Two Pythonistas accidentally fall in love with rails post that was going around the net and the Rails circles a year ago. Now a year in they are back with another interesting post, moving from Rails to Node/CoffeeScript for their new beta release (of what I can’t tell you, I have no idea what ThinkFuse does).
