Rails 1.1 Available
ActiveRecord gets a significant upgrade (polymorphic joins and bottomless eager loading for example) in the 1.1 release of Ruby On Rails. What's really impressive in this release though, is RJS -- the ability to write your JavaScript functions in Ruby. Rails was already a superior platform for writing Ajaxian web apps. With this release, the Ajax model stays the same, but you now have an elegant process for writing your JavaScript in Ruby.
I've only had the opportunity to get 1.1 installed and running on my personal machine, but it's clear from just a little exercise that 1.1 is going make a lot of teams that are humming along productively with 1.0 take a look to see when and how they can get 1.1 into their production platforms. I'm working on a couple Ajax things "the old way" -- Java back end and JavaScript front end -- and the new setup available from Rails now is going to make that hard to go back to.
Comments
I think until Rails get a solid security foundation, like the JCA/JCE structure of Java, it will not be an option in most corporate settings.
Anyone for creating an equivalent RCA/RCE? ;)
Posted by: Hans Granqvist | April 4, 2006 04:20 PM