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I think you might be confused between Ruby and Rails. Ruby's current version is 1.8.6, while 1.9 is nearing an official release and 2.0 is still very experimen
by carpal 19y ago
I think you might be confused between Ruby and Rails.
Ruby's current version is 1.8.6, while 1.9 is nearing an official release and 2.0 is still very experimental at this point.
Rails' current version is 2.0.2, but the last release on the 1.x branch was 1.2.6.
I'm going to assume that you meant Rails 1.2.x versus Rails 2.x. Yes, there are a lot of advantages. Mainly though, there aren't really any disadvantages- there's no reason not to use Rails 2.0.
- dcurtis 19y agoThe huge disadvantage is that there's a lot of misinformation in tutorials now. The first page :scaffold section of just about every beginning Rails tutorial is broken in Rails 2. Lots of little things are changed. Some of them are confusing and hard to decipher when tutorials and message boards say things should be working when they're not.
- nickb 19y agoForget about online tutorials... they're all skimpy and short on details. Just get Obie's book 'The Rails Way.' It's definitely THE BEST book on Rails available today. http://www.amazon.com/Rails-Way-Addison-Wesley-Professional-Ruby/dp/0321445619 http://www.amazon.com/Rails-Way-Addison-Wesley-Professional-...
- Tichy 19y agoThat's why Java is still in the lead... Edit: is that the Obie from the "do you think we are stupid" thread?
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- raju 19y agoYes, the very same Obie... And I agree... I just got the Rails Way, and from what I have seen so far, leagues ahead of any other book out there...