Rails 2.0: Release Candidate 2

Posted by David November 29, 2007 @ 05:08 AM

After another batch of fixes, tweaks, and buckets of polish, we’ve prepared the hopefully last step before 2.0 can go final: Release Candidate 2. If nothing major pops up, expect the final version to land within the next week or two at the most.

As usual, we got the latest gems on the gems.rubyonrails.org server and there’s a RC2 tag as well. Please put this final test through the ringer so we can get a clean 2.0.0 final release.

If you haven’t kept up to date on what’s new in 2.0, have a look at the original preview release announcement. The gem version for this release is 1.99.1. Enjoy!

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  1. James Mitchell on 29 Nov 05:17:

    Wow! Um….wow!

    Can’t wait to use this for real!

    — James Mitchell

  2. Mat Harvard on 29 Nov 05:36:

    Awesome! Looking forward to the official release as well :P

  3. donnacha on 29 Nov 06:16:

    So … when will 3 be released?

  4. fourth on 29 Nov 06:53:

    comment

  5. oi on 29 Nov 07:15:

    test message

    sorry…

  6. nobody on 29 Nov 08:35:

    awesome

  7. Michael Johann on 29 Nov 09:05:

    thanks for this release. What are the plans about running on Ruby 1.9? I would like to help making rails compatible to the new Ruby release.

  8. Michael Johann on 29 Nov 09:05:

    thanks for this release. What are the plans about running on Ruby 1.9? I would like to help making rails compatible to the new Ruby release.

  9. NaTTs on 29 Nov 09:52:

    Thanks for this, it’s really awesome. Can’t wait to use Rails 2.0 for our real projects ;)

  10. Gampol Thitinilnithi on 29 Nov 11:09:

    Thank you everyone for giving wonderful software to the world!! :D

  11. Gampol Thitinilnithi on 29 Nov 11:09:

    Thank you everyone for giving wonderful software to the world for free!! :D

  12. Morten Christensen on 29 Nov 12:46:

    I wonder if current Rails IDE’s like Netbeans and Aptana/RadRails will work with Rails 2.0 ? (some of the changes seem to require updated IDEs)

  13. Jason Stewart on 29 Nov 13:06:

    @Morten Christensen – Textmate works (mostly) well with minor modifications. Some of the shortcuts like jumping between views and controllers and partial creation from selection does not work yet.

  14. Tim on 29 Nov 16:14:

    I second the comment about Ruby 1.9 (YARV).

    Will this work with Ruby 1.9?

  15. rick on 29 Nov 16:55:

    There has already been a lot of work to make rails forward compatible with ruby 1.9. My understanding is that it works, or is real close. However, we’ll have to wait for the Mongrel team to update it for ruby 1.9 too.

  16. Mihai on 29 Nov 18:51:

    @Morten Christensen – Netbeans knows about the new .erb extensions and other things.

  17. Bas van Westing on 29 Nov 21:04:

    I don’t really understand how action_web_service is configured. Simply installing “gem install actionwebservice” doesn’t do the trick. There are no generators or plugins available as far as I can see.

  18. Lance Carlson on 29 Nov 21:20:

    woot

  19. Jason Amster on 29 Nov 21:52:

    Excelent work. I’m working with RC 1 now so it’ll be nice know that things are gonna be less buggy. Any documentation on new features or api docs?

  20. James on 30 Nov 01:18:

    Great work! Looking forward to the future of Rails!

  21. Daniel Fischer on 30 Nov 02:05:

    Awesome guys :)

  22. Josh on 30 Nov 03:22:

    Excellent, can’t wait.

  23. face on 30 Nov 05:46:

    Thanks Rails Contributers.

    I can confirm mephisto edge works on Rails 2-0-0_RC2.

    It was very strange, but the first time I ran rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel_2-0-0_RC2, the railties directory was missing. Then I tried the gem, but couldn’t find an actionwebservice that was compatible with the 1.99.1 gem. The second time I used rails:freeze, it worked. Note actionwebservice has moved, so the upgrade is something like this: 

    rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel_2-0-0_RC2
svn export http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/ousted/actionwebservice/ vendor/rails/actionwebservice


    Thanks again!

  24. saurabh purnaye on 30 Nov 06:11:

    yeah… waiting for rails 2.0

  25. heaven on 30 Nov 08:14:

    How to update rc1 to rc2 ?

  26. Dhruba Jyoti Dey on 30 Nov 09:41:

    Great…... What are the new features added in 2.0

  27. Brazen on 30 Nov 17:22:

    New features can be found here:

    http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/9/30/rails-2-0-0-preview-release

  28. ronald on 30 Nov 19:05:

    This is cool… oddly however link_to :back does not appear to be working as expected from the changelog.

  29. Bill Davenport on 01 Dec 04:01:

    Q: Will there be any impact to gems/plugins, mongrel, OS X (Any ideas Laurent)?

    The adoption of 2.0 may be slower as people wait for a clear upgrade path.

  30. honey@jklm.no on 01 Dec 04:39:

    Some comments regarding Ruby 1.9 would be great.

  31. heavy on 01 Dec 09:20:

    I have encounter “stack level too deep” when using dom_id on a object collection with AR association..

    @object.collections.first.id will cause the “stack level too deep” whilst @object.collections.first[:id] will not have such error.. This is very strange..

  32. Vincent Murphy on 02 Dec 00:05:

    gem install rails—version 1.99.1—source http://gems.rubyonrails.org

  33. Hans Parkett on 03 Dec 10:45:

    I am looking forward to Rails 2.0.

    I hope it will be even better

  34. Nick Karnik on 04 Dec 08:44:

    Where can I find: What’s New/Changed in Rails 2 ???

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  36. Michael Johann on 06 Dec 22:19:

    Am I the first who downloaded it? ;-) {{ root@turbine:# gem update rails—source http://gems.rubyonrails.org -y Updating installed gems… Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyonrails.org Attempting remote update of rails Successfully installed rails-2.0.0 Successfully installed activesupport-2.0.0 Successfully installed activerecord-2.0.0 Successfully installed actionpack-2.0.0 Successfully installed actionmailer-2.0.0 Successfully installed activeresource-2.0.0 Installing ri documentation for activesupport-2.0.0… Installing ri documentation for activerecord-2.0.0… Installing ri documentation for actionpack-2.0.0… Installing ri documentation for actionmailer-2.0.0… Installing ri documentation for activeresource-2.0.0… Installing RDoc documentation for activesupport-2.0.0… Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-2.0.0… Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-2.0.0… Installing RDoc documentation for actionmailer-2.0.0… Installing RDoc documentation for activeresource-2.0.0… Gems: [rails] updated root@turbine:# rails -v Rails 2.0.0 }} Thank you guys!!!

  37. David Colwell on 07 Dec 03:07:

    Me too me too!!!!! Shows install as 2.0.0 (as Michael indicated).

    Oh…this would make me sooo happy! (I’ve been verifying an app that needs to be released soon against 1.99.1 in the hopes it will prove to be 2.0 ready).

    Needless to say, I’m VERY excited! Even if this isn’t the true release candidate, it seems to indicate things are very close!

  38. Evan on 07 Dec 05:36:

    you got it! it’s a good new to see the version 2.0 with my very own eyes

  39. Maxime on 10 Dec 06:56:

    Hey folks,

    I have a stack level too deep error (SystemStackError) on a haml view. Looks like a object.id method is throwing the error. object[:id] is working though.

    Why?

    Good work anyway! Maxime

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