Rails 2.3 RC2: Final stop before release
Posted by David March 05, 2009 @ 11:01 AM
The past month has seen a flurry of activity getting Rails 2.3 solid. We think we’ve ironed out all the major kinks now, but just to be sure, we’re running one last release candidate before it heads off to the presses. So please take some time to test out this release candidate. If we don’t get any reports of major blockers, we’re going to call this final within a week or two.
We’ve put together a complete guide for the Rails 2.3 release notes with all the information on what’s new, what’s changed, and what’s deprecated.
You can install the release candidate with:
gem install rails --source http://gems.rubyonrails.org
Will be installing over the week-end. Great job so far.
Great Job!!!
Great.. looking forward to it
thanks, looking forward to it..:-)
Thx :) Waiting for final…
Oh wow. Rails 2.3 is going to be huge! Lots of changes abound
How wonderful..! waiting for the final release!!
Great job. Looking forward to see the final version.
I’m very excited about this!!!
Nice job. Development mode running much faster :) !
Still need a close look at HTTP Digest.
Will the pstore be available as plugin?
Wonderful – One of us take a plunge :-)
Solution for: ERROR: Error installing rails: actionpack requires rack (>= 0.9.0, runtime)
$ sudo gem install rack
Just awesome. Thanks to all.
Is there a process for additions on the changelog?
Seems excessive to add a lighthouse ticket for that.
Thanks a lot! Congrats to the developers and the documentation team.
Already developing on this release,... guys,... don’t know what to say, just: Thank you very much! It makes so much fun. The best decision ever made, to get into this.
BLOCKER: Still not fixed – STI and the form helpers.
The nested forms don’t work with STI either.
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10454
David Reese, you may want to check out the docrails project:
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/5/2/help-improve-rails-documentation-on-git-branch
530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first.
Action Mailer with Gmail (using TLS) seems to be broken again. It worked fine on Rails 2.2.2, but not in Rails 2.3.0 and Rails 2.3.1.
Keep up the Good Job !! Thanks. :-)
Checking this release. Just installed Rails 2.3.1 successfully.
I hope someday can give it back… Best Luck
@David Downhill—I had trouble with Gmail w/TLS in 2.2.2, I eventually upgraded to Ruby 1.8.7 and my issue was resolved. I haven’t tried with 2.3.1, but that might be the ‘gotcha’.
You might give that a try. http://prowestech.com/posts/3
As far as I know out of the box TLS support in Rails 2.3 should only work with Ruby 1.8.7 (i.e. you need a TLS plugin for Rails 2.3 on Ruby 1.8.6).
We’ve just committed support for prerelease gem versions to rubygems, so hopefully by the time you have another RC, you can push it out to rubyforge as 3.0.0.rc1 or what have you and it won’t get installed by folks unless they ask for it specifically.
Too bad it didn’t get finished in time for this though.
@Daniel: I have problems with TLS support using: ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux] and Rails 2.3.1
If you’ve got verified bugs with RC2, please head over to the Rails Lighthouse (http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/overview) and create a ticket, ideally with a failing test if not a full patch. Issues that are only mentioned in weblog comments are likely to get overlooked when it comes time to cut 2.3 final.
Is this RC the merger of Merb and Rails? I haven’t seen any of Yehuda’s commits in the changeset. So I was wondering if that is different from this release.
No.
The Rails/merb merger is 3.0. It’s still a bit down the line.
Hope you guys can let it released ASAP
installing now!
Is Rails 2.3 RC2 = Rails 2.3.2?
I can’t find a tag name 2.3_RC2 or some kind like that in git :)