Restructured Ruby on Rails 3.0 Hits Beta

Curlsman informs us that the first beta of Ruby on Rails 3.0 has been released (release notes here). Rails founder David Heinemeier Hansson blogged that RoR 3.0 "feels lighter, more agile, and easier to understand." This release is the first the Merb team has participated in. Merb is a model-view-controller framework written in Ruby, and they joined the RoR development effort over a year ago. Reader Curlsman asks, "So, is version 3 of RoR going to be a big deal, more of the same (good or bad), or just churning technology?"

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[Foofoobar]

You forgot Groovy and Grails does it better :)

Cynicism = good sign

[dino213b]

I'm glad first responses are so negative; now I don't have to bother trying ROR out.

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[Hurricane78]

What about F#lukie and FAILs?

Or Gravel and Nails? (Chuck Norris’ favorite morning cereal.)

Or Gravy and Meats? (Favorite British breakfast, I guess... especially in pie form. ;)

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[Foofoobar]

Actually Groovy and Grails are Java native. No need to interpret via JRuby. Groovy is native Java code as is Grails.

But being the ignorant troll that you are, your kneejerk response shows how little you know about these technologies and that you must have confused Slashdot with another one of your Facebook pages.

Mutually exclusive??

[syousef]

Rails makes developers happier, not unemployed.

When you've had a lousy job, the two aren't mutually exclusive. I want assurances that they don't intend to make me happier BY making me unemployed ;-)

Re:I think everyone would agree here...

[HeronBlademaster]

It's praises are sung by the same group that think MySQL is the ultimate enterprise database.

Everyone knows the real ultimate enterprise database is Access.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Shut the fuck up.

Say, do you happen to do any Ruby on Rails consulting? You're more polite and better-spoken than most Rails consultants I've had the "pleasure" of working with so far. I might have some work for you.

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[maxume]

Somebody out there is just itching to write C on Crack.

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[s_p_oneil]

Good post, but IMO it's a shame you left this one out:

Ruby and/or Rails sucks because:
8) It doesn't use spacing to delineate code blocks

Ruby and/or Rails is awesome because:
8) It doesn't use spacing to delineate code blocks

Re:I think everyone would agree here...

[Jane Q. Public]

Just another example of someone putting down Rails for reasons that they only imagine because they have no idea what they are talking about.

Hey, I can make stuff up out of the air too!

(1) PHP still has a serious floating-point bug. Try multiplying 3.000001 and any number ending in .000300020001. The result is "Python".

(2) Oracle is going to roll back the last 47 bug-fix commits to the Java repository, but only for the OSS version. Then it will sell the up-do-date version commercially.

(3) Microsoft has announced that it is just too much work to make all those separate compilers that turn its Visual Studio languages into intermediate Common Language Runtime code. It will henceforth be marketing C++, C#, J#, F#, and FU With A # Object, all as separate languages with their own compilers and IDEs. It will be selling the rights to its Visual Basic language to Delphi, who say they will turn it into what it was always supposed to be.

Give me a few minutes; I am sure I can imagine some more.

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[wisty]

Mod parent tragically informative.