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I think now would be an excellent time to jump into 3.0. So much has changed since 2.x, practically every Rails developer, new and old, will be blogging, tweeti
by ashleyw 16y ago
I think now would be an excellent time to jump into 3.0. So much has changed since 2.x, practically every Rails developer, new and old, will be blogging, tweeting, debugging and asking and answering questions on StackOverflow about Rails 3, you'd be daft to lag behind and miss the opportunity.
- blantonl 16y agoother than "So much has changed since 2.x," I personally think it would be great for you explain why "practically every Rails Developer" should jump in to 3.0. Your comment is a given, right?, but other than to state the obvious, I'm curious as to your personal reasonings regarding this release.
- steveklabnik 16y agoThe biggest two for me are massive performance increases as well as unobtrusive javascript. Now, I haven't done any specific benchmarking with my apps yet, but the upgrade from ree to 1.9.2 seems to be fairly large from every benchmark I've seen, as well as Rails 3 itself becoming faster, due to the Merb influence. Unobtrusive JS is awesome; I never used Rails javascript helper stuff because I prefer jQuery to Prototype, and just wrote all of that stuff by hand. Now I can actually use helpers. Full HTML5 support is also nice, though I guess haml was already doing that for me.
- ashleyw 16y agoWhy wouldn't you? It's faster, it'll eventually have more support from the community, and has tons of improvements which should help with your productivity.