Ruby on Rails 2.0 is Done

Jamie noted that ruby on rails 2.0 is done. In addition to upgrade and installation instructions, the article lists a number of the more interesting new features in the release which appears to be quite extensive.

Too bad I just switched to Python

[Anonymous Coward]

This new antigravity [xkcd.com] feature is astounding.

Re:ORM still broken?

[K. S. Kyosuke]

Making the huge mistake that everyone would only ever want to do something your way is how you kill a programming language.

What a relief... As a lisper and rubyist, I'm glad to hear that Python is going to die! Good riddance!

Re:RRN?

[skoaldipper]

Why in my day we called that a hanging chad in a group of punchcards.

I guess they didn't fix the scalability issues

[ThinkFr33ly]

Perhaps a web development framework's web site should be designed in such a way that it can handle a burst of traffic from Slashdot.org and Digg.com.

Otherwise, one might think that RoR doesn't scale.

Re:Scaling matters if you're Digg. Are you Digg?

[crayz]

What language do you use that's more readable and expressive than Ruby?

Re:You don't have to use ActiveRecord

[smackjer]

I agree. That's why I build all of my computers by hand with raw transistors and whatnot.

Re:Does it still require Mongrel?

[Anonymous Coward]

pack of mongrels

Fucking faggot.

Re:Sites Moved to Rails?

[Davorama]

11,000 requests in one second.... wow, that's huge!

How many did the system respond to?

Re:Sites Moved to Rails?

[OverlordQ]

Status: 500 Internal Server Error?

If throwing random crap to the script causes that, then yes, you have a serious problem.