Rails 4.0 around the corner

But seriously... I don't really see any changes that just scream "come check out Rails 4!". I mean... my God, they are competing with Node now which has an ecosystem that is growing at a nuts pace. The only reason I can see so far for it is that they want to really make those still on Ralis 2.x feel like shit and want to upgrade, because now they will be two major versions behind.

Don't get me wrong. I love Rails. But WTF. Tell me what I'm missing.

Re: Rails 4.0 around the corner

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Post by chrismealy » Sun, Jun 03, 2012, 3:19 AM UTC

Any word on performance?

Re: Rails 4.0 around the corner

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Post by peteforde » Sun, Jun 03, 2012, 3:20 AM UTC

Rails 4.0 might be out by the end of the year, but that's outside of my definition of "around the corner".

Re: Rails 4.0 around the corner

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Post by technojuicy » Sun, Jun 03, 2012, 3:27 AM UTC

laundrysheet1 wrote: post #4

Can someone please clarify what justifies the 3.2 -> 4.0? I don't see a big change, isn't this more like a 3.2 -> 3.3?

Part of it could be PATCH replacing PUT.

Re: Rails 4.0 around the corner

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Post by wynst » Sun, Jun 03, 2012, 3:40 AM UTC

laundrysheet1 wrote: post #4

Can someone please clarify what justifies the 3.2 -> 4.0? I don't see a big change, isn't this more like a 3.2 -> 3.3?

Ruby 1.9.3+ justifies the major version bump

Re: Rails 4.0 around the corner

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Post by melvinram » Sun, Jun 03, 2012, 3:42 AM UTC

laundrysheet1 wrote: post #4

Can someone please clarify what justifies the 3.2 -> 4.0? I don't see a big change, isn't this more like a 3.2 -> 3.3?

From what it looks like to me, it's not so much about a drastic new feature set but rather about trimming down dramatically. You could argue that it really should be like 3.2 -> 3.3 similar to OSX Leopard -> OSX Snow Leopard. I think they gave it a full version upgrade because it WILL (not might) break a lot of apps. That's my interpretation. I might be wrong.