Mar 18, 2006 | Rails 1.1 update

I have updated my last post on the upcoming changes in Rails 1.1 to reflect the last couple weeks of development. The most notable changes center around support for interesting HTTP capabilities—it seems that David has gotten some REST religion, which I’m pleased to see. Several of these new features have already made it into the development branch of Blinksale 2.0.

The updates to the article are scattered throughout, so if you just want the highlights, here are the keywords to look for:

• pluggable parameter parsers
• render(:xml => ...)
• respond_to
• render :content_type => ...
• to_xml
• scaffold verification
• reload! and app in the console
• Rake namespaces
• test:uncommitted
• group_by
• in groups of
• cascading eager loading
• RJS exception notification