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It appears that, after a short release candidate period, Rails 2.0 final has now been released. In celebration of such an event, I’ve compiled a list of all the features of Rails 2 that I’ve written about so far. Soak it in, baby.

Though I’ve made my best effort to keep all the feature descriptions up-to-date, I can’t guarantee their complete accuracy. For a more exhaustively and thoroughly vetted list of features presented in a more refined manner you may just have to suck it up and buy the Peepcode min-book PDF on Rails 2. “It’s good stuff”, says the author!

Major Rails 2 Features and Changes

(sorted by date added)

• ActionMailer::Base.server_settings Deprecated
• 1.month.from_now.no_longer.effed
• Source Code Annotations
• A Better Way to Access Your Helpers
• Stop Littering In Your Environment File
• ActiveRecord Caching Provided in Actions
• Cookie Based Sessions are the New Default
• Expanded Caching Scope
• .rhtml and .rxml to Die a Slow and Painful Death
• Mime::Type Convenience Methods
• ActiveRecord Explicit Caching
• RESTful Routes Get a New Custom Delimiter
• Object Transactions Are Out
• ActiveResource Gets Custom Methods
• render Now 70% More Betterer
• A More Flexible to_xml
• New Database Rake Tasks
• validates_numericality_of Gets Pimped
• ActiveResource Finder Update and Custom Headers
• RESTful Routing Updates
• Bringin’ Sexy Back
• No More (conventional) Pagination
• Collection Fixtures
• Use Rake to List Your Routes
• Partials Get Layouts
• Your DB Adapter May Have Left the Building
• Logging Gets a Little Snappier
• Better Cross-Site Request Forging Prevention
• Better Exception Handling
• Specify Plugin Load Ordering
• Validations Now :allow_blank
• Fixtures Just Got a Whole Lot Easier
• Filters get Tweaked
• Pre-Environment Load Hook

For another great feature overview, check out the official rails blog preview release post.

Anybody ready for Rails 3?

tags: ruby, rubyonrails