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"Rails 2.1.2 includes the same two security fixes that we pushed out for 2.0.x recently [...] As always, you can install with: ..." --
* See also: Rinari: Ruby on Rails Minor Mode for Emacs
Six months of bug fixes, a handful of new features, and a strong bridge to Rails 3, fix of couple of bugs in the HTML-safety changes that may lead to XSS attacks. Rails is free software web framework, optimized for programmers happiness and sustainable productivity.
"If you haven’t looked at the state of Rails documentation lately, it’s time to look again. The new Ruby on Rails Guides page includes 14 separate guides for Rails developers, with topics ranging from “Getting Started” to routing, security, testing, and debugging.
"There’s a brand new version of Rails coming, as you already know. What better time for a new version of some of the Rails documentation? So the Rails Guides team is pleased to announce a refresh of the Ruby on Rails Guides site, just in time for the Rails 2.3 release..." -- -- see also: Rinari: Ruby on Rails Minor Mode for Emacs
"This release contains additional deprecation notices, security fixes and some minor performance improvements. All users of 1.2.3 are advised to upgrade..."
What's new in this release:
- Direct3D improvements, including driver version emulation.
- Beginnings of support for OLE objects in Richedit.
- Several fixes to the animation control.
- A bunch of fixes for regression test failures.
- Lots of bug fixes.
"Rails 2.1 is now available for general consumption with all the features and fixes we’ve been putting in over the last six months since 2.0. This has been a huge effort by a very wide range of contributors helping to make it happen..."
"...For applications that run internally we use Ruby on Rails. Because we enjoy using it, it's fast to develop with, straight forward to use and because we use it (i.e. to reduce knowledge transfer and training requirements) we decided to follow the same design patterns and coding conventions used in Rails when we built our MVC framework. Yes that's right we've built Perl on Rails..."