What can't rails do? When is it the right language?

Re:What can't rails do? When is it the right language? by noelchurchill on Tuesday March 25, 2008 @11:06PM (#146487)

What is new in Rails 2.0? There are a lot of books and resources available for 1.x. Are there any good resources available for the latest version?

I understand there were some significant changes. Does that mean if I'm learning this from scratch that I should avoid the 1.x way of doing things?

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Re:What can't rails do? When is it the right language? by inklesspen on Tuesday March 25, 2008 @11:37PM (#146504)

There's a great book for Rails 2.0. It's "The Rails Way", by Obie Fernandez.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321445619/

By and large, most of the 1.x stuff will still work, but it won't necessarily be the most efficient use of your time; lots of the 2.0 changes make things easier.

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Re:What can't rails do? When is it the right language? by noelchurchill on Tuesday March 25, 2008 @11:51PM (#146514)

Was the 2.0 stuff thrown in at the last minute or was it well done?

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Re:What can't rails do? When is it the right language? by SteveC on Wednesday March 26, 2008 @12:50AM (#146551)

They used edge rails so they could write about it before it was officially released. Here's an excerpt from the book:

"However, edge Rails still comes in handy sometimes. For example, it allowed us to extensively cover Rails 2.0 features in this book prior to the actual, official 2.0 release"

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Re:What can't rails do? When is it the right language? by inklesspen on Wednesday March 26, 2008 @12:13AM (#146526)

It's well done. It's a great book. If you know Ruby, it's the only Rails book you'll ever need.

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