June 1, 2008

Rails 2.1 Released

Filed under: Rails — shodson @ 7:12 am

Rails 2.1 was just released! Read about it here. Some highlights:

The new major features are:

  • Time zones
  • Dirty tracking
  • Gem Dependencies
  • Named scope
  • UTC-based migrations
  • Better caching

Good RailsConf Coverage

Filed under: RailsConf — shodson @ 6:45 am

For those that couldn’t make it up to Portland this week for RailsConf, Drew Blas’ blog has been covering it well.

Ruby 1.8.7 Released

Filed under: Ruby Language — shodson @ 6:43 am

Ruby 1.8.7 is released! From the release announcement…

The new version of Ruby includes many bug fixes, lots of feature enhancements backported from 1.9 and some performance improvements since 1.8.6 while maintaining stability and backward compatibility with the previous release to a high degree. See the bundled documentation for details about compatibility issues.

View the details here

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