Jim Lindley Notes

Just saw it was tagged in the Rails dev subversion repository. Long time coming but definitely worth it, I’ve been running on edge for 6 months now and Rails 1.2 is hard to go back to when I need to work on older projects.

Official announcement and an overview of changes.

Rails 2.0 Installation

The actual release version is 2.0.1, 2.0.0 had a small issue. EDIT 12/16: the latest version is now 2.0.2. To install it as a gem:

sudo gem install rails

Or inside an existing Rails project:

rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel_2-0-2

rake rails:update

Online Resources:

• Rails change log (will be slow today, it’s on the main dev site)
• New Feature Overview
• Free screen casts on Rails 2.0
• Ryan Daigle’s edge Rails posts
• Rails 2.0 PDF ($9)
• Foxy Fixtures (managing inter-related fixtures just got easier)
• Handling deprecations when upgrading to Rails 2.0
• Prototype 1.6C Changes
• Scriptaculous 1.8 Changes

Books with Rails 2 content:

• Prototype and Scriptaculous book ($20 pdf)
• Advanced Rails Recipes ($20 pdf)