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Rails 4.1.0 beta1 released

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Re: Rails 4.1.0 beta1 released

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Post by annon »

Great new practical features. I can literally use every one of these, and many of them I've already been handling by rolling my own or using a gem.

Surprised to see enum support finally come to activerecord.

Re: Rails 4.1.0 beta1 released

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Post by steveklabnik » 

  > This new release also follows our new policy of targeting a minor release every
  > six months. The idea being that the jump from minor to minor shouldn't try to
  > include everything under the sun. Just whatever is ready after the six month
  > mark.
EDIT: I have been misinformed. I didn't participate a lot in this release, and I missed some discussion. If you read my previous comment, I mentioned this was a policy change, which isn't technically true. Anyway, on to what is true:

People have always complained that upgrading Rails has been difficult, we want to make that better. Releasing often will help us make a smoother upgrade path, which should help with these issues.

Re: Rails 4.1.0 beta1 released

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Post by gfodor »

wow, the action mailer preview thing is one of those things you're amazed didn't exist until now. i remember rigging this up manually a few times after getting sick of sending a million test emails to myself. great work rails team!

Re: Rails 4.1.0 beta1 released

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Post by danso »

> In fact, we're already running beta1 in production for Basecamp, so you know it's been taking a good beating. This helped us catch a couple of performance regressions, and we've verified that everything is still spiffy fast on Basecamp.

Wow. Well, having enough faith to run Basecamp off of it -- and the fact that 4.0 was a very smooth transition from 3.2 -- is enough reason to play around with this beta for a project.

Edit: nevermind, don't think I can handle this feature removal: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/c300dca9963bda78b8f358...

/s

Re: Rails 4.1.0 beta1 released

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Post by whalesalad »

Wow. These are STELLAR improvements! Check out the release notes here: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/guides/source/4_1...

So excited about all of it. Native enum is a blessing.

Took me a while to figure it out but here is the required line for your Gemfile:

    gem 'rails', '4.0.1.beta1'
    
    # This works too, but isn't required (thanks to cantoniodasilva's comment below)
    # gem 'rails', github: 'rails/rails', tag: 'v4.1.0.beta1'
Booya! Very excited to put it through the paces of this new app I am working on.

Re: Rails 4.1.0 beta1 released

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Post by steveklabnik »

danso wrote: post #6

> In fact, we're already running beta1 in production for Basecamp, so you know it's been taking a good beating. This helped us catch a couple of performance regressions, and we've verified that everything is still spiffy fast on Basecamp. Wow. Well, having enough faith to run Basecamp off of it -- and the fact that 4.0 was a very smooth transition from 3.2 -- is enough reason to play around with this beta for a proje…

I don't work at 37signals, but it's my understanding that Basecamp has often been running near HEAD Rails. Everyone on the team tries to keep some apps running on edge before a release to catch regressions.

Re: Rails 4.1.0 beta1 released

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Post by 1qaz2wsx3edc »

The only issues I have with this release is that they could of waited until after the holidays. I have a feeling we'll see a security patch right before xmas.

The second issue I have is `secrets` should be entirely removed from the framework. These settings should NOT be stored at the file level, it should be handled by environment flags. I feel this is a fundamentally broken feature.

Spring is neat, was it just a port of Zeus into Rails?

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