RailsConf 2007 Keynote: A peek at Rails 2.0
Posted by Enrique Delgado Fri, 18 May 2007 22:03:00 GMT
RailsConf 2007 is well underway now. After a day of tutorials, we were welcomed by Chad Fowler, writer and fellow Pragmtic Studio Alumni. Chad had some cool things to say to the community, namely that we have an opportunity to have a good impact and he encouraged us and everyone to raise money for charity as a Rails community. Go to http://pragmaticstudio.com/donate to make your donation.
David Heinemeier Hansson kicked-off the conference with his keynote speech “A peek at Rails 2.0”. David spoke about some of the upcoming features in 2.0, but specifically said that 2.0 is not going to be a “magic unicorn”. I.e. not a re-write, but more like a progression of sorts; real and humble. I’m sure the screencast will g up soon at the rails site site.
Some of the features are:
- namespaces in routes.
- Default scaffold, will have a complete xml backend.
- scaffold_resource will be just scaffold and it will be RESTful
- Easy to connect to a REST interface, even with an isolated simple ruby file. “This stuff works now”. Active Web Service no longer bundled with 2.0, just Active Resource. “The answer is not SOAP, it’s active resource”
- Breakpoints are back. Rails-debugger.
- Debugger
- HTTP performance though JS and CSS cache to make the browser make fewer connections also, asset hosts. Query cache.
- Sexy migrations
- The MIT license assumption.
- Spring cleaning (all those deprecation warnings will become a reality)
More soon!
