I’m a little bit late to the party on this one, but it would appear that Rails 2.0(.1) is finally out. Friday saw the birth of the second major release of the framework we love to love, and it jam packed with lots of loveliness and joy.

Rails 2.0 (i wonder how long until the trolls think Rails 2.0 is a Rails mash-up or something) brings with it lots of new features, polish, fixes and sexy, here are some of my favourites:

  • Namespaces in ActionPack
  • Seperation of view-type and renderer (ie. show.html.erb or show.html.haml)
  • Automagic record routing: form_for(person)
  • HTTP Authentication baked in!
  • Request Profiler
  • Sexy Migrations, say a big thanks to err.the blog for this one
  • ActiveRecord XML deserialization and JSON serialization
  • ActiveResource (like AR for REST api’s)

There are (obviously) tons more features to the release, i suggest you check out the official announcement as well as Ryan’s awesome post. Happy coding bitches!

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