Today i was reading about the new features of Rails 2, there are a lot of changes, for an overview you can checkout the official rails blog announcement. Here is a little list of major changes and new features:
- ActionMailer::Base.server_settings Deprecated
- 1.month.from_now.no_longer.effed
- Source Code Annotations
- A Better Way to Access Your Helpers
- Stop Littering In Your Environment File
- ActiveRecord Caching Provided in Actions
- Cookie Based Sessions are the New Default
- Expanded Caching Scope
- .rhtml and .rxml to Die a Slow and Painful Death
- Mime::Type Convenience Methods
- ActiveRecord Explicit Caching
- RESTful Routes Get a New Custom Delimiter
- Object Transactions Are Out
- ActiveResource Gets Custom Methods
- render Now 70% More Betterer
- A More Flexible to_xml
- New Database Rake Tasks
- validates_numericality_of Gets Pimped
- ActiveResource Finder Update and Custom Headers
- RESTful Routing Updates
- Bringin’ Sexy Back
- No More (conventional) Pagination
- Collection Fixtures
- Use Rake to List Your Routes
- Partials Get Layouts
- Your DB Adapter May Have Left the Building
- Logging Gets a Little Snappier
- Better Cross-Site Request Forging Prevention
- Better Exception Handling
- Specify Plugin Load Ordering
- Validations Now :allow_blank
- Fixtures Just Got a Whole Lot Easier
- Filters get Tweaked
- Pre-Environment Load Hook
