Rails 2.1 is Out!
For the Rails guys in the audience, Ruby on Rails 2.1 was officially released at RailsConf this year. 2.1 adds a lot of features I’ve been looking forward to for a while (and using via edge rails) so I’m excited to see them in action.
Here are some of the features that I find useful:
Migrations are now versioned with a timestamp instead of a sequential number, which is a big deal for a team of developers. Your migrations have a much lower chance of stepping on each other now.
In your environment.rb file you can now list out the gems your application requires, making it easier to maintain what your app needs to run.
Supporting multiple timezones in your application is now dead simple.
To get a rundown on how to use these new features, check out Ryan Bates’ Rails 2.1 Railscasts episodes.