What's happening to Rails? DHH is adding some new APIs, and he's suggesting new programming guidelines and conventions. This is nothing new. He's been doing th

What's happening to Rails? DHH is adding some new APIs, and he's suggesting new programming guidelines and conventions. This is nothing new. He's been doing this every 6 to 12 months since Rails 0.13 (at least). Here are some of the bigger disruptions: - Rails 1.2: Rewrite all your controllers to use the new REST model. (This was annoying, but the results looked a lot better.) - Rails 2.0: Change from ";" to "/" in standard resource routes, and rewrite controllers to use respond_to. - Rails 3.0: Deal with bundler, ActiveModel, Arel, a total overhaul of ActionMailer, etc., etc. By historical standards, the asset pipeline is a medium-sized change, and certainly much smaller than the Rails 3.0 changes. And unlike the Rails 3.0 changes, you can turn it off in about 2 minutes. Personally, I rather liked most of these new features at the time: They addressed my day-to-day pain, they made my code cleaner, and they helped me keep in sync with other programmers. Rails is optimized for a certain set of opinions, which overlap about 80% with my own, and that's usually good enough for me. If your tastes diverge from DHH's tastes to a greater extent, it won't be as much fun.