5 Resources for Getting Up to Speed on Rails 2.1

Rails 2.1 has been out for a little over a month now, and I've had several people ask me to recommend resources for getting up to speed on its new moves. So, in no particular order, here goes ...

• Ruby on Rails 2.1 - What’s New? (Carlos Brando)

  • English PDF
  • Portuguese PDF
    
    

• What's New in Edge Rails (Ryan Daigle)

  • Easier Timezones
  • Has Finder Functionality
  • Has One :through
  • Dirty Objects
  • Partial Updates
  • Gem Dependencies
  • UTC-based Migration Versioning
  • DB Console
    
    

• Rails 2.1 Peepcode PDF (Ryan Daigle)
  

• Railscasts (Ryan Bates)

  • Gitting Rails 2.1RC1
  • Time Zones in Rails 2.1
  • Migrations in Rails 2.1
  • named_scope
  • Tracking Attribute Changes
  • Gem Dependencies
  • Anonymous Scopes
  • Caching in Rails 2.1
    
    

• Living on the Edge (of Rails) (Chu Yeow)

  • #1 - native mongrel, caching, and Ruby 1.9 progress
  • #2 - more caching, freezing improvements, and miscellaneous optimizations
  • #3 - x-sendfile and many other sexy enhancements
  • #4 - faster routes, easier form partials
  • #5 - better eager loading and more
  • #6 - better performance, Git support, and more
  • #7 - improved ActiveRecord::Base#attributes, time zone support
  • #8 - the code optimization edition
  • #9 - the sleeper edition
  • #10 - time core extensions, date helper tweaks, and a new respond_to nicety
  • #11 - ActiveRecord performance boost, readonly option for has_many :through, and more
  • #12 - register_stylesheet_expansion, sexy default timestamps, and more
  • #13 - Git script/plugin install, has_one :through
  • #14 - the extreme edition. extremely late.
  • #15 - the early edition
  • #16 - github edition
  • #17 - conditional caches_page, ActionView::TestCase, and memcache config options
  • #18 - ActiveResource timeouts and smarter migrations for MySQL integers
  • #19 - change_table for migrations and more
  • #20 - script/dbconsole and flash.now now test-able
  • #21 - caches_action gets conditionals and some bug squashing
  • #22 - pre-Railsconf 2008 edition

And if you're upgrading an existing app, here's a bonus resource for you. Be sure to check it out ...

• Gotchas When Upgrading to Rails 2.1 (Chad Pytel)

There you have it. Get crackin'. There will be a quiz.

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And if you want to show these guys some appreciation for all the work they've put into these resources - come on, you do, right? - be sure to recommend them on workingwithrails. They surely deserve it!

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